Four Bigfoots and a UFO

…and it’s an UFO, not a UAP.

’round about eight years ago, I took some screen-printing classes at the Indianapolis Art Center, and I still have a box of prints on fabric, mostly a portrait of my cat.

I found one printed on a patchwork of batik fabrics, and decided to practice the facing finish with it.

Disaster. I had done some machine quilting with cotton thread on the fabric before printing on it, but for some reason (possibly Tanqueray), I had decided to add a layer of nylon tulle before I did the stitching.

I am a moron.

Nylon melts at a lower temperature than is necessary to get a good crease–or even the wrinkles out!–on cotton, so I had a lot of difficulty getting everything to stay in place. As you can see from the above picture, I started out with a square.

I did not end with a square.

The important thing is, it is no longer a UFO. It is a FO.

While this is going on, I was also hand-stitching up some Sasquatches. This is not a thing I can explain, because I do not entirely understand it myself. You recognize Patty’s silhouette from the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film:

Don’t worry. There’s more where this came from.