I belong to a small group of quilters who get together once a month for fun, food and fabric fondling. In fact, our official name is Fabric Fondlers Anonymous. We have show and tell, ooh and aah over each other’s work, have a tasty lunch prepared by the hostess and sometimes we have special projects we are doing.

This started as an Applique Society Charter group…..and then I corrupted them with Art quilting. I don’t think they’ve ever looked at odd trash the same since. Here is an example of what I mean.

 Everyone came to my house to play for 2 days.  I had a good supply of rusty trash for rusting fabric and thought they all needed to be introduced to the joys of trash collecting. I asked them all to bring anything rusty they had and some fabric. I supplied the vinegar and salt.

The long funky thing was something I picked up on a camping trip that had trot line fish hooks on it but was left on shore. I cut all the hooks off and Ron put it in a storage space in the motor home. I think it might be a transmission shaft but at any rate, it had nice rust. Someone brought nails, chains, wire, fencing, horse shoes and lots of other cool stuff. These first 2 photos are the girls preparing their rust packets.  They were so excited!

This piece was wrapped around some kind of funky junk that looked a bit like an iron drumstick. I think that one came from someone’s shed. It had an interesting gear on it that made the pattern