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If You Quilt It, Spot Will Come…Back

May 30, 2006 by Mary & Kimberly

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Presenting the most inefficient way to search for your lost pet ever!

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on May 30, 2006 at 2:09 pm jfasoga

Excuse my ignorance, but did you guys put the posters there or what?
on May 30, 2006 at 2:17 pm Kimberly

Yeah, we totally added the posters. You know…for comedic effect.
on May 30, 2006 at 2:27 pm Anonymous

Can you believe someone really hung this on the wall??? In the uglies rankings, it’s up there – not quite as bad as the fantasy hats or the 70’s crocheted necklace, but pretty dang bad.
on May 30, 2006 at 2:37 pm SageHen

Oh dear, this is so funny and sad at the same time. Can you imagine looking at that on you wall every day?
on May 30, 2006 at 2:44 pm Inky

hahaha, i’d almost learn to quilt to make that.
on May 30, 2006 at 2:47 pm Denebola

Wow how tragic. The depressed state of the poor owner is reflected in the color choices. The hanging would be slightly redeemed if a tiny dog tail were just sticking out from behind a tree.
on May 30, 2006 at 3:06 pm Marcia

I bet if you go look at the original trees, the “lost dog” posters are macrame.
on May 30, 2006 at 3:16 pm d34dpuppy

1 of those trees should have a noose on it
on May 30, 2006 at 3:42 pm Melina

Um, I am pretty certain one of my dad’s co-workers had this on their office wall. Or maybe it was one of his “clients” that gave it to him as a present.

No, I am absolutely certain.

And I am wondering why I’ve put off psychotherapy for so long.
on May 30, 2006 at 4:08 pm Allen

I quite like it, actually. Maybe do the ground portions in shades of blue and silver…
Change the signs to “Lost Faun”…
I’ll hang it in the back of my wardrobe!
on May 30, 2006 at 4:14 pm Yorkie

Without the posters, it could be rotted stalks of celery bobbing in seas of sour cream in various stages of decay.

(reaches for Paxil)
on May 30, 2006 at 5:29 pm Brent

Someone clearly had issues with their puppy going “to a farm” when they were young. Years of therapy and this is the best the shrink could come up with?
on May 30, 2006 at 6:02 pm Sputnik

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I quite like it, actually. Maybe do the ground portions in shades of blue and silver…
Change the signs to “Lost Faun”…
I’ll hang it in the back of my wardrobe!
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Heh heh heh. Love the Narnia reference, Allen! It took me a couple of minutes to get that one.
on May 30, 2006 at 8:17 pm severina

Ahhh, such a vibrant color scheme!

I used to have a hideous 1970’s crafts book with a pattern for a quilted wall thingy very much like this but it was meant to look like a brass headboard.
on May 30, 2006 at 9:07 pm Lois

Ugh, how bleak and barren. Nothing but brown, drab, dormant trees on a dull winter landscape of bare soil interspersed with patches of snow desperately clinging to life….or perhaps wishing the sun would shine so they could die a quick and painless death. Yeah, this is TOTALLY what I would give to a friend who’s already on antidepressants.
on May 30, 2006 at 11:31 pm emi

This is the funniest blog I have ever seen, despite the fact I had to actually wear some of that stuff in the 60’s and 70’s! I laughed so hard I had tears squirting out my eyes!
on May 31, 2006 at 2:01 am Aly

I bet it’s totally hanging from an oversized wooden spoon.
on May 31, 2006 at 10:46 am Rosie

the worst part, it’s circa 1984!!! it looks dated even for the 80s! haha.. I’m surprised they didn’t add ‘puff paint’ details to liven it up!
on May 31, 2006 at 12:24 pm Ashphalt

Time consuming, but I’m sure all those lost dog potholders got the neighborhood’s attention.
on May 31, 2006 at 5:12 pm beastarzmom

Strange sticks held aloft
Scattered all over the place
Where did my dog go?
on May 31, 2006 at 6:55 pm Amanda Grindal

This was definatly a last ditch call from help from a suicidal quilt designer, poor thing.
on May 31, 2006 at 9:16 pm Lois

Shouldn’t there be a macrame fringe on the bottom?
on May 31, 2006 at 9:23 pm sly

I went to Bablefish to see what the English translation was for the french stuff… It seems that ‘patron pour murale piquée’ means ‘owner for mural pricked’.

I’d be pretty pricked if I were the owner of that eyesore, that’s for sure!
on May 31, 2006 at 10:44 pm tuffie

… i’d make that and use it, for irony’s sake. but it’s just too terrible

also, the french translates directly to the english.. piquee can mean quilted *grin*
on June 1, 2006 at 12:17 am d34dpuppy

ha! tha dog is not lost, it is only a little ocnfused
on June 1, 2006 at 12:18 am d34dpuppy

so confused and dyslexic,too.
on June 1, 2006 at 5:47 am tictic

I come here a lot, 1 question…do people REALLY laugh till they cry looking at these? i find them amusing, but CRY? come on…
on June 1, 2006 at 2:22 pm CJK

tictic, do people really die of embarrassment? Do they really roll on the floor? Do they really laugh their ass off? It’s a figure of speech.
on June 1, 2006 at 4:52 pm SageHen

I’d be willing to give laughing my ass off a try.
on June 1, 2006 at 5:58 pm Daffy

Laughing your ass off is a very wise choise. But the dog had no such choise…living with people who are so dreary they would even consider making something like this, let alone look all over town for the stupid little labels and sit for hours and hours sewing this kind of thing. I wonder what they had on their walls bevore they made this creepy thing? My goodness this is dreary and creepy!!! It’s things like this that drive good dogs mad and give reason for them to run away and not come back; lost dog my ass, smart dogs can’t be expected to stay with dreary people and their dreary decor. Not to worry, he’s better taking his chances on the streets.
on June 1, 2006 at 7:49 pm Tracy

The dog isn’t lost…he ran for his very life; his very sanity.

You can almost hear that sad lonely whistle at the beginning of the Lassie Come Home episodes.
on June 1, 2006 at 8:13 pm Amester

I most certainly have laughed until I cried here at Threadbared
on June 1, 2006 at 11:17 pm Daffy

It could be worse, The posters could have read,”Lost children”.
on June 2, 2006 at 12:46 pm Sunshyne

that sour cream and celery reference really got to me. . . *shutters*
on June 2, 2006 at 12:53 pm Inky

“Available in corduroys, cottons in Pig, Cow, Teddy, Panda, Cat, Bunny, Frog, Chick, Mallard, Beaver,Lion, Parrot, Raccoon, & Skunk.(Shown are Cow and Piggy styles)”

And yet STILL no sign of that poor dog after twenty-two years? Sad…

http://www.chemainus.com/jandesigns/clothing/kids_animalpants.htm
on June 2, 2006 at 3:17 pm elliegal

Man o man, Inky. Lookit the way them cows are glaring at the kid in the cow suit…
on June 2, 2006 at 7:04 pm d34dpuppy

o ya inky i wanna pig suit…even if it isnt kosher..
on June 3, 2006 at 10:37 am Lois

Is the girl in the piggy outfit trying to feed a plastic goose?? O_o
on June 3, 2006 at 2:07 pm elliegal

Those outfits might be cuter if they actually fit the kids.Got enough ass room in that pig outfit, kiddo?
on June 4, 2006 at 9:28 pm Anonymous

“Is the girl in the piggy outfit trying to feed a plastic goose?? O_o”

Well spotted! Yep, that’s a plastic decoy shell alright (sans the styrofoam floatie thing).
on June 8, 2006 at 5:29 pm Phyllis

>Man o man, Inky. Lookit the way them cows are glaring at >the kid in the cow suit…

I think they want the apple….. but wouldn’t mind a few fingers on the side.

And yes, I have laughed until I cried at least once at threadbared

Phyllis
on June 9, 2006 at 4:54 pm Amy

Dang! Who would pay $65 to put animal pants on their kid??? I guess “garanimals” just wasn’t exclusive enough for them
on June 10, 2006 at 6:57 pm Cheryl

Oooooooooh, they come in ADULT size, too! :gets out credit card:

I wish I could see her sales stats. Do you think anyone actually buys that crap?

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