November 09, 2005
it has begun!
Begun!
My long delayed entry into the modern quilt-along ! Eclipse!
OK, so I am not sure the fun quilts people would approve of the batiks that I am using for this quilt, but I bought them with an entirely different quilt in mind and, you know how it goes, something changed along the line and I decided to try this kind of quilt instead and well, batiks are what I had around, so there you go. Batiks it is.
It's for.... (dramatic pause).....The Mother-In-Law.
I've never used batiks before and I can't remember what was holding me back now. They haven't ever appealed to me really is all I can really say. But suddenly I find them infinitely interesting. AND to make me feel even weirder, I have suddenly become really comfortable with the cutting process. It has traditionally been the thing that makes me sigh and want to sit down and check my email 80 times while I'm doing it, but as of late it's like my patience has grown a new limb and I find it... dare I say it.... relaxing even.
The quilt I had in mind before this was one with lots of applique. And like I wasn't a Batik Person before, I am not an Applique Person now. I wanted to try to be an Applique Person when I originally planned the other quilt, but alas, I know myself. I have lofty aspirations, but like kay has kind of talked about before, I tend to find a thing, and really want to get down in it and roll around in it and really explore it. It's a particular kind of piecing thing for me right now. Cutting and piecing. I guess it's a way of mastering something, but if you live with other people they would more than likely call it something else. They may even use words like obsessive. Try to ignore them and rest in the knowledge that you are eons beyond them in knowledge of cutting and piecing. Even though they have no interest in cutting and piecing.
One day maybe I shall become that Applique Person, but for now I'm in the cutting and piecing ditches rolling with my Modern Quilt-along homies.
xo
I'm still rolling in shrugs and All Things Denim. Apparently I have real staying power in the rolling department. Although the DSS (Dishrag Supply Shed) is showing signs of having some room to wedge in a few more dishrags. So maybe I'll do that again 50 times or so. Or hey! It's felting season, innit? Time to felt a whole bunch of useless objects!!!! xoxo Kay
Posted by: Kay at November 10, 2005 08:30 PM