I am more than a little bit obsessed with Thursday Next. I have been contemplating a tattoo à la hers from The Woman Who Died A Lot (I would tell you what it is but that would be a spoiler), in the not so secret hope that after I die, whichever med student gets my cadaver (did I skip that bit? Sorry--after minimal consideration & honestly it is not like we have progeny, me & A both thought we would leave our leftovers to the med school)...which ever med student gets my cadaver might just think I WAS Thursday Next. Wow, what a great sentence that was!
In the interest of obsession mash-up (because one good obsession deserves another), I have been quietly acquiring Thursday Next-ish themed fabrics & patterns to make a Thursday Next quilt for myself. I think the reality that there is no such fabric line makes this more fun (so please, Benartex, Lakehouse & Timeless Treasures et al, I honestly would rather do this without direct input from you; I realize Spoonflower may already have such a collection -they have the Dr. Who & tardis toile, after all- but I am confident they are not trying to lock it down). Some of the stuff I have had for awhile, yards of rather regency looking characters-ideal to represent that book that disguises JurisFiction HQ for example. I also bought the Wuthering Heights FQs when they were on clearance way back when & we can pretend it is really Jane Eyre, right? & there are book fabrics & clock fabrics almost everywhere once you start looking. I don't need to tell you that nursery crime, erm, I mean Nursery Rhyme fabric abounds. I even have some rather off-beat generic saint-sort-of fabric that I am happy to call Saint Zvlkx. Maps of the Crimea present their own challenge, naturally, but I think I can get around that one. Maybe. Cheese fabrics abound (who knew?).
But I am running into a wall with a few things & so I am asking:
Has anyone seen any dodo fabric? What about a line drawing of a dodo for maybe a redwork design? I have looked through my Dover clip art for same, but all the drawings are more detailed than I can manage. I am toying with appliqueing a dodo, but that seems like it's own project & maybe not part of this one.
Ditto Porsche line drawings. I realize I may just have to trace one (I am NEVER gong to find the correct make & model with the specific colors so I have given up on that), but I thought I would ask.
Neanderthals are shockingly neglected in all handwork resources. There is really nothing more to say on that.
So if anyone has any thoughts, I would appreciate the feedback, either in comments or message me or whatever. Also, & I realize the answer is probably "oh hell NO", does anyone else want in...?
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