It has been too long since I last wrote. I've struggled to find the time to quilt and to blog and recently started to get back to quilting. I've got new projects that have helped to reinspire my desire to quilt. I think all quilters go through these cycles of passion for this craft and feeling the minutes and hours of life being consumed by the mundane, the necessary, and the distracting.
So let's chat about what's re-ignited my passion for quilting. Our guild is blessed to have a wonderful quilt designer in our ranks. She has generously created a design for all of us with a clue a month through our season. Unlike a mystery quilt, we know what the end result will be.
When I get these opportunities to support a fellow quilter, I take the chance to push my comfort zone and try something new. In this case, I need three colours plus a background. She showed both a light, white on white, background and a darker background. I decide to approach things differently. I decided to flip that on it's head. I have a colourful background fabric and tone on tone's for the foreground fabrics. I have no idea if this will work, but I take projects like this as an opportunity to try new things. Like all projects, I took both a colour and a black & white photo of the fabrics to ensure I had a range of tones. What do you think? (Note: one of these fabrics did NOT make the cut.Can you guess which one?
The next project is a One Block Wonder quilt. It is the first one I've ever done. Again, experiment time, I have a panel that is part of the Northcott "Northern Peaks" line as my centerpiece, but the actual OBW is being built from the coordinating fabric line. This was a workshop held in person by our guild. We were all amazed at the diversity of choices everyone had made. Like the previous experiment, we'll see how this goes with great anticipation.
Finally, Bonnie Hunter's annual mystery has started and of course, I joined in once again. This time, having just finished a blue, red, and white quilt, Ai wanted a change of colour scheme. Brown and gold, here I come.
There is a fourth project I started this fall too, but I'll leave that for the next post.
Needless to say, I'm surrounded by fabric these days and feeling such joy at the potential this fabric represents. I'll have a big update for my UFO list but 2024 will be an epic year as I work to complete all of these projects. I hope you will join me along the way.
