First thing this morning will find me sipping my coffee while snuggled up with my computer…
… ORDERING PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT!
(did you hear my blogging partner Sam cheer?)
I say that by way of introduction to this quilt project because my creative efforts for this blog post have more to do with Photoshop than fabric selection and quilt design. So, let that be apology enough for the varying colors and blurriness you’ll see the same fabrics appear as.
My studio has great reflected light, but as the day passes while I stitch, my little camera can’t deal. My new camera that I got for my birthday can! But it won’t let me get to the pictures I have taken. YET. Hence my absence on Tuesday and my morning activities today… *sigh*
Anyway, I had a fun time unpacking and working on this fall wall hanging I started a while back. A LOOOONNNGGG while back. I think Sam might have been a teenager when I started, but maybe not. Every autumn I promise myself I’ll get it finished for the next. Every spring I tell myself to get busy. Every summer I tell myself “you have just enough time.” And the years have rolled by! I’m pretty much the queen of unfinished projects :)
One thing that held me up was solving the puzzle of trying to fit Rectangle A (flying geese units – those pointing triangle things, top left (above), for you non-quilters) into Rectangle B which was not the same size. There was no sense of urgency so I never made myself get very serious about figuring it out. Usually something pops into my head after a while.
Last year it suddenly struck me that I could just add on any old piece of fabric and put some wooden buttons on it. The blue fabric has wooden buttons illustrated as the flower centers. I had always planned on a few embroidery and embellishment touches anyway! It was one of the biggest “DUH!” moments of my creative life! It only took a decade-plus for that idea to pop into my head.
So, as of today the quilt top is finished! YAY! What’s that you say? Oh, that empty lower right corner? Well, that’s the little block I kept out for inspiration, pinned to my bulletin board through 2 moves and countless sewing room re-organizations.
And now that I need it, where did it go? I’ll find it! I WILL!
Because this fall wall hanging is going to be on my wall THIS fall! (was that a Dr. Seuss moment or what!?)
Gail
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