Under the Needle

What is under my needle?  

Monday I layered and basted  a section of the Scrappy Quilt. 

It is under the needle being quilted.

Because I have a tendency to quilt densely, 

this will take a while to finish the entire quilt.

For size reference, those circles in the diagonal curved blue strip

are about the size of a penny. 

As you can see, I am changing designs as I go.  Nothing is "perfect" as that

is not my goal. Rather this will be great practice for me.

AND

It will have fantastic texture when the quilt is washed.

So what is under your needle?

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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A Little Seasonal Fun

Last year I recorded a video of myself.  I was singing and being silly.  I thought it was perfect to share here while I am being less productive. 

And just because,  here is a painting I did several years ago to use as my Christmas card, that year.  

Merry Christmas Y'all

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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Three

Three scrappy panels on top of a queen-sized bed, they look colorful and chaotic, but still an organized chaos.  

Creative types, Artists, Poets, Composers, Quilters - we all face chaos and try to tame it, organize it, make it fit. 

Here are quotes from a few creative souls:

-We live in a rainbow of chaos. (Paul Cezanne, painter/artist)

-Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos. (Igor Stravinsky, composer/music)

-My goal is to communicate the organization and beauty that exists in our universe underneath the appearance of random chaos. (Aleta Pippin  Santa Fe contemporary artist )

-Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. (Katherine Anne Porter Journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist)

My hope is that I have taken a chaotic mess of scraps and orphan blocks and tamed them into a functional work of art.  

The colors are vivid and varied.  The cotton fabrics range from shirtings to batiks,  prints to solids, commercial to hand dyed.  I love them all - and I love them all together in this wild meleé of piecing that will become a quilt.   

Next up in the process is to layer and back each panel and then quilt them. After that I will make the strips and join the  panels into one delightfully fun quilt. (At least that is my opinion.)  This will most likely go right into the new year before it reaches a finish.   I hope the rest of your year is joyous and safe.  

I have no idea if I will be posting again before the end of the year, so let me remind you to be kind to all and to say "I LOVE YOU" to those that are dear to your hearts.  I wish you peace and joy. 

Until Next Time,  

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Panel #2

Finally there is a picture of the second panel for  "The Very Scrappy Quilt" that I am slowly working on.  Today there was some sun and the temperature and wind were reasonably agreeable.  So I got a photo of that panel.  Here it is. 

There are some curved lines, a pineapple block, randomly pieced blocks and strips. And it all adds up to a very fun quilt panel to add to the other panel.  

Meanwhile, I have a lot of pieced sections that I need to get joined and create the third panel.  Of course, I may decide to layer and quilt one of these panels first.   I am waiting for a sign or a word from my muse. 

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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