I know, I know...
"where the hell have you been?"
Did I read your mind, or what :)
Let just say that I have NOT been feeling the papercraftiness creative mojo for the longest time. Especially this fall & winter. All I wanted to do was to hibernate and eat bad food. DAMMIT! Yep, I have gained some of the weight back that I was so proud of losing not-to-long-ago. Which just leads to more depression, which leads to more bad eating... blah blah blah. Vicious effing circle.
This fall & winter I did, however, help my mom get several of her rooms organized & cleaned. I even got her to get rid of a lot of her old quilting magazines... THAT was a feat in itself ;) I was proud of her... she has a ton of stuff in the donation and "to sell" piles.
Other than that, I have been Pinteresting my stubby fingers off... which I am sure many of you are sick of getting the notifications. Just ignore them :)
So, you are probably wanting to know what creative schtuff I have been up to... otherwise the title of this post was all a ruse ;) Well, a few years ago, I had started a handmade quilt. I stuck with it for awhile, but as with us creative types, we have to pace ourselves and switch to other projects and media. So, since the papercraftiness mojo left me, I thought I would try quilting again.
My workstation all ready! My wand iron & table-top ironing mat, mom's fancy sewing machine that I am borrowing, a little burlap box for scraps, rotary cutter, add-a-quarter ruler, cutting mat, cutting ruler... gang's all here!
Selecting fabrics for each block is both challenging and fun.
I used freezer paper method to cut the "L" shapes & quarter-round center.
The center arc is paper-pieced.
I don't know what I was thinking, starting a king-size quilt for my first quilting project. AND picking a pattern with circles... crazy woman. But, I fell in love with the idea of this quilt fading from deep dark colors to bright warm colors. So here are some work-in-progress pictures:
Most of the fabrics are batik... which I LOVE! There are two different "Carnival Beauty" block sizes from Valori Wells that I am using (8" & 4"). My goal is to not duplicate any blocks... yikes. Both sizes will be intermingled throughout... similar to this: http://www.valoriwells.com/quilts/carnival-beauty
What do you think?
1 comment:
That is going to be one gorgeous quilt when it's completed!
It's pretty fabulous already at this point.
Good to see you being creative.
How are those paintings going? :)
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