Quilt Jam #1: Thank You, Girl - Thread Sketching For the Love of a Good Dog

I've been wanting to get back to doing regular journal quilts, to test techniques and practice my art.  I've been seeing these line drawings on Pinterest -- I think they might be for tattoos?  And I thought they'd be good for thread sketching, too.

 

This one could be entered into the Quilt Jam Challenge for the Fly In Quilt Show later this summer.   This challenge is to make a quilt based on a song.  The song is John Hiatt's "Thank You Girl."  He wrote it for a girlfiend / wife, or maybe a car (?), but I always pictured it being about a K-9 friend instead.  ;-)   I've always loved this song, and I always thought it was about a dog -- Probably because I had my own wonderful Keba-Girl at the time I discovered John Hiatt, and yes, we were "rolling in clover" then!  

This could also be #4 of the Stolen Moments Series depicting John Hiatt songs.  

Here's a bit of the lyric:

Thank You, Girl by John Hiatt

You're a little on the thin side, but that's all right 
You stood by my me baby when I didn't think I'd ever see daylight ...
Now we're rolling in clover ...
We didn't see this in no tea leaves ...
My fate was sealed before I met you, Darlin'
Still you took the little love I saved
I wanna thank you, Girl

 John Hiatt's "Thank You Girl."

Some notes on the making of this quitlie:

I traced the line drawing to tracing paper, and then sewed through it.  

The words were trickier -- I had to bone up on that again.  I wound up doing some thread calligraphy / embroidery for the words.   Could use a little more practice, but it worked in the end.

I used some leftover Dream wool batting, because it puffs up so nice even without washing it.  

 

For this little quiltie, I decided to use a facing instead of a binding.  So here is a video from APQS about how to do that: