Does this happen to you?

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Does this ever happen to you?  I was sent some Flurry by Dashwood Studio - coming to stores near you this month - to design and make a quilt.


I drew up a design in Touchdraw (an iPad and mac app). 


Printed the drawing out and fussed, fiddled and followed the diagrams to get where I needed to be. 


Finished the quilt and hung it over the fence for the compulsory photo shoot. 


Complete with close-up of the Aurifil 40wt charcoal straight line quilting.  


But all through the whole process, the word "Flurry" was making me think of the word "Surrey" and that's always followed by "with a fringe on top" and so this quilt will always be indelibly linked in my mind with When Harry Met Sally.  Does this kind of weirdness happen in your brains too or is it just me?

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  1. rolleiflex7 October 2013 at 19:12

    All the time! It must be hereditary (can you inherit things from me?) Whenever I saw Jarno Trulli driving in Formula 1 I'd sing 'Truly scrumptious, you're truly, truly scrumptious'.

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    1. Ebeth8 October 2013 at 20:50

      I'm ridiculously excited to see a Formula 1 reference on a quilting blog. :)

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  2. Leanne7 October 2013 at 19:43

    It's a great quilt, and yes, sometimes those connections happen and I can never get rid of them.

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  3. BillieBee (billiemick)7 October 2013 at 20:01

    It's not just you. Loved the post...what fun.

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  4. Mara7 October 2013 at 20:14

    At least that's an adult movie, I am always associating things with the movies and cartoons my kids watch. Great post, and beautiful fabrics and quilt.

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  5. Alcea Rosea 317 October 2013 at 20:19

    Love the fabric and quilt, I like tend to hum nursery rhymes, much to the embarrassment of my family.

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  6. Isisjem7 October 2013 at 20:41

    I'm relieved this post went where it went. I thought you were going to say a freak wind blew the quilt over the fence into a cow pat. And you think your mind is random...

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  7. Ella7 October 2013 at 21:15

    Um. I totally get that. I've had to explain my seemingly nonlinear (but in my head totally linear) thought process to the hubs regularly.

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  8. Beth7 October 2013 at 21:40

    And when I saw the word "Surrey", it made me think of "The Holiday": when Iris (kate winslet) , tells Arthur (Eli Wallach) what part of England she is from ;Surrey! See? the rest of us do that too!

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  9. diegoagogo7 October 2013 at 21:44

    Thank you for this weeks ear worm!! LOL
    Lovely quilt.
    Cheers
    Lush

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  10. Michele T7 October 2013 at 21:56

    This is an amazing quilt design! Love it!!! Wow! Hope you don't mind if I pin it to my Quilt and Sew board :-)

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  11. Mrs Flying Blind...7 October 2013 at 22:02

    Just you .. and your sister!! Although all the Sewing Summit reports keeps making me say 'Sal tlay ka siti' out of The Book Of Mormon!
    Cool quilt x

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  12. Cloud CouCou7 October 2013 at 22:52

    Gorgeous quilt you make it sound so easy!! Love that fabric too.... now there's something ese to buy! PS my brain's always doing weird things :)

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  13. Trudi7 October 2013 at 23:05

    Nope, all I hear now is magic round about theme for this one thanks to a certain young lady!

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  14. Jennifer Mathis of Ellison Lane8 October 2013 at 00:45

    Totally happens to me all the time. Love that movie btw! Your quilt is fabulous. :) Well done my friend!

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  15. Mary8 October 2013 at 00:53

    This happens to me all the time. I can look at various quilts I've made and a certain song or maybe a film I watched while sewing will come to mind.

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  16. Serena @ Sewgiving8 October 2013 at 01:18

    Every time I pick up my black and white houndstooth quilt to work on - Michael Jackson's song keeps replaying in my head - I have to put it away again for fear of going crazy :)

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  17. Regina8 October 2013 at 01:32

    YES!!! And those goofy little things usually end up as part of the name of the quilt -because I can NEVER call it what the pattern is titled... OH I CAN'T TELL YOU how glad I am to learn I am not alone! :-)

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  18. Brenda8 October 2013 at 01:39

    lovely quilt!

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  19. MariQuilts8 October 2013 at 01:54

    Love love love this quilt Lynne....nah, my brain never does anything crazy like that...well, maybe now and again.

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  20. Vicki8 October 2013 at 05:13

    Veerrry nice!! You are not alone in the brain thing...doesn't that happen to everyone?

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  21. Dianne8 October 2013 at 07:28

    Word association to a song? Happens all the time. Creating a quilt from the germ of an idea to the drawing board to a finished quilt hanging in a fence getting its photo taken in less time than it takes me to clean my house? Nope, pretty sure that never...yep definitely sure that never ever happens to me. My drawing board to finished quilt time frame is something on the order of the time it took to build rome! The quilt is lovely. And now I need to go watch Harry and Sally ;0)

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    1. Marcia R8 October 2013 at 15:58

      Totally agree - NEVER happens with me either!

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  22. The Pied Pedlar8 October 2013 at 09:07

    Love the quilt.

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  23. pennydog8 October 2013 at 10:00

    Oh that is a gorgeous quilt! Will we get to stroke it this weekend?

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  24. Julie8 October 2013 at 10:46

    This quilt is wonderful. Nice job!

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  25. Marcia R8 October 2013 at 15:57

    love the quilt! And what cracks me up is that you associate that song with When Harry Met Sally and not Oklahoma!

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  26. Val's Quilting Studio8 October 2013 at 16:33

    WOW!!! I am so inspired by your idea with the Touchdraw! Your quilt if fantastic!

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  27. Sarah @ Berry Barn Designs8 October 2013 at 16:37

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  28. Sarah @ Berry Barn Designs8 October 2013 at 16:39

    LOVE the quilt! Great design! And I was thinking what Marcia said about Oklahoma; I was in Oklahoma once years ago and all those songs always make me smile : )

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  29. Lisa8 October 2013 at 19:12

    I love this quilt!

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  30. Anonymous8 October 2013 at 21:19

    Your quilt is gorgeous! I get brain worms all of the time, but what happens to you is not quite the same. Off the top of my head, I can't think of an example of what you ask. Anyway, I wish my brain worked as creatively as yours. I don't know how you made the leap from those fabrics to that quilt. I'm so very jealous--in a good way.

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  31. Unknown8 October 2013 at 21:45

    I love that fabric and your quilt is beautiful!!

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  32. Jayne9 October 2013 at 03:08

    And I thought it was just me! Thanks for the iPad Touchdraw info!

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  33. jeifner9 October 2013 at 04:22

    I near ya on the thought process. I named the paper piece star I made Cairo star because a pile of the pieces looked like a Star Wars storm trooper but also a pharaoh/sphinx. Then I thought pharaonic storm trooper and I should talk to my friend in Cairo. "Oh, I'll call this Cairo Star." :)

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  34. Josie McRazie9 October 2013 at 15:36

    Lynne that's some finny stuff... because ot is all to familiar! At our house I tell you everything comes back to a song or movie quote! One of my best gal pals has a hubby who goes back and forth with me! She just shakes her head because she doesn't get most of them!

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  35. myBearpaw9 October 2013 at 16:52

    I know exactly what you mean. At a quilt show I was at recently the stall next to me was called Quilting Antics, but I kept reading it as Quilting Gigantics and now can't think of it any other way! Love this quilt!! I just ordered all of these last week!

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  36. www.randomthoughtsdoordi.com9 October 2013 at 18:39

    I love the way your mind works. Beautiful quilt.

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  37. Unknown10 October 2013 at 18:14

    oh that's funny... (and my favourite movie EVER). Beautiful quilt too.

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  38. Michele11 October 2013 at 12:20

    Thanks for the smile this morning at that thought. The quilt is just great.

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  39. Nicky11 October 2013 at 23:23

    I think of you now and the phrase frilly knickers pops into my head!

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  40. mathea13 October 2013 at 11:47

    Oh yes, that happens all the time! My co-workers tend to look at me with a frown and shake of the head when that sort of thing happens at work, but I don't care. I blame our creative minds - we are able to build bridges between areas that don't naturally belong together and make new and exciting things happen ;-)

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