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| Improvisational Amalgamation |
I'm working on the first quilt of 2014, which I actually made a point of having up on my design wall as the final quilt design of 2013. I don't know if thats cheating somehow, … calling it the last quilt of one year and the first quilt of the next…. in any case, one day rolls into another, quilts get started and finished, life goes on. The parts were made at different times, the funny little log cabiny bits were made in 2010, when my sewing room was set up on the porch in the first year we moved to the island. The triangle parts were made this year, one day at a sew-in with the guild, and the top left corner and other stripey bits were made with scraps from a workshop I did with Nancy Crow in 2012. So its a multi year endeavour, one that shows how my pack rat habits can pay off.
Improvisational piecing is so much fun. Sherri Lynn Wood at Daintytime has put out a call to participate in her new book on the subject, which I think is just great! If you like doing improvisational work, go look at her post, you can apply to play! I love collaborating and plan to do much more of it. Do you have collaborative projects you have worked on?
Love the sense of movement in this quilt, and the excitement of the hot orange in the upper right.
ReplyDeleteThank you Blue. It's changing a bit as I sew the parts together.
DeleteThanks for telling us about Sherri Lynn Wood. I signed up too! Maybe we will get to be in a book together.
ReplyDeleteThat would be great!
DeleteYou're already a pro at improv quilts! I have signed up for Sherri Lynn's book too - am doing the same quilt you are. It is scary but fun!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about pro… but I've been doing it for a long time. I think its because I don't like following the rules! I love it that Sherri Lynn Wood is community building with her book.
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