There's a new baby - Finn McCoy Jordan, born last night. A quilt is needed!
Just when I'm getting on with a bunch of serious art quilts large & small. Still, there's always time for a baby.
Thank heaven for little people...
Even though I keep saying "No more baby quilts", they are my great saving and keep me going through periods of thin inspiration and scarce time.
Every baby needs a quilt... they're my favourite way to celebrate others going where I dare not follow. A baby quilt is an opportunity to make something smallish, light-hearted, useful and still original.
So... here's my latest, for Ryan. His dad is an astronomy buff.
It even has back art! fuzzy flannel, so it won't slip off the cot
Fidelity issues
Dear quilts, I have been unfaithful. And not just once.
Confession is good for the soul so here is just how bad it is: A weekly rehearsal date with choir, monthly Crafternoon (beads!), monthly Albany Beauties, nightly music practice (well, sometimes), occasional baking and other cooking, sometime housework... and going to work 5 days a week. Sometimes I even go to a play or gallery opening.
This is not a small fidelity issue. It's a great big glaring discrepancy between what I think I love best and what I actually do with my time.
All of these other things are either enjoyable or necessary - some are even both. But they all take time, and attention away from the BEST thing.
So I'm going home right now to line up a bit of quilt stuff for the weekend. Maybe I'll even cut or stitch something
Confession is good for the soul so here is just how bad it is: A weekly rehearsal date with choir, monthly Crafternoon (beads!), monthly Albany Beauties, nightly music practice (well, sometimes), occasional baking and other cooking, sometime housework... and going to work 5 days a week. Sometimes I even go to a play or gallery opening.
This is not a small fidelity issue. It's a great big glaring discrepancy between what I think I love best and what I actually do with my time.
All of these other things are either enjoyable or necessary - some are even both. But they all take time, and attention away from the BEST thing.
So I'm going home right now to line up a bit of quilt stuff for the weekend. Maybe I'll even cut or stitch something
back into the Zone.. maybe
nothing much happened after the velvet skirt... except I wore it very happily.
I've missed several "sewing dates" and felt generally uninspired, until I picked up a little pack of reverse-applique elements for the Absence/Fertility work I designed at Symposium. Just the easy re-start I needed. They're done, and I'm ready to make 6 more, and then assemble the whole work.
Also basted the Whirling Squares quilt and will begin to quilt it this weekend.
And, most exciting of all, I've started the "Pharmaceutical Comforters" using felt and pill cards. That concept has been a long time in the baking.
It's all about giving it time, and not giving up on it :-)
I've missed several "sewing dates" and felt generally uninspired, until I picked up a little pack of reverse-applique elements for the Absence/Fertility work I designed at Symposium. Just the easy re-start I needed. They're done, and I'm ready to make 6 more, and then assemble the whole work.
Also basted the Whirling Squares quilt and will begin to quilt it this weekend.
And, most exciting of all, I've started the "Pharmaceutical Comforters" using felt and pill cards. That concept has been a long time in the baking.
It's all about giving it time, and not giving up on it :-)
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