It's a Finish!

 Prepare!

68 x 88

Hand quilted.

 Prepare. Don't just duck and cover. 

I have had this top made since September 2017. I blogged then a little about the quilt. 

I have so many quilt tops that need quilting that sometimes it makes it difficult to decide which top to quilt next. This one has been sitting around a long time because I never felt the urge to finish it. But with current events I decided now was the time to get it finished. 

 Ever since the Duck and Cover drills I practiced as a young girl I have felt the need to be prepared for a catastrophe. Of course as a young girl I also knew there would be little chance of survival with a nuclear bomb but I did know where the nearest fallout shelters happened to be. However, I worried about post apocalyptic times and what I would do about food. As I've grown older I've learned various survival skills and have made sure to have some food stuffs set aside like rice, beans, flour, pasta and canned and dried garden veggies and herbs.   

Around 2011 the CDC published guidlines for  Zombie Prepardness  so I added some zombies to my quilt. They are at the window trying to get into the cache of canned goods.  The "chalkboard" above the "window" lists reasons (embroidered in glow in the dark thread) to be prepared.  Pandemic is listed as one of those reasons. 

 Glow in the dark eyes of more zombies trying to get in. Although I think they are after brain and not my canned goods so I probably don't have to worry much about that. 

 I really am a survivalist (if you want to call it that) at heart. I guess I would call it more self-reliance.   Some friends I used to work with have called me recently to invite themselves to my house because they know they could at least get bread and homemade jam if food got scarce because they never did heed my warnings about being prepared. We all got a good laugh. 

My quilt shows me prepared with lots of chocolate and other snacks. Of course we know that is to have on hand!  But who knew TP would be even more important.  Not even the CDC had that on the Zombie preparedness list. 

 Bacon is another essential. 

 I've had this backing around for ages. I bought it specifically for the back of this quilt. It has dishes on shelves. 

I made a canning jar stamp in my scrapbook supplies so stamped it on my label. A lot of times my quilts don't get labeled but I think this one needed some documentation about the importance of preparedness in case this heirloom gets handed down through the generations. 

Top finished September 2017.

Little did I know that 3 years later there would be a global pandemic of CVD-19.

Hand quilted during self quarantine March-April 2020.