A quilt is not finished until it is quilted and bound. The danger of showing " process", is that it can be judged as wrong before it gets a chance to be right..eg finished. Not so much being judged by others as being judged by myself. I should by now, know to trust the process, but at times I waiver. I thought I would be putting these blocks into the WIP file, but I saw the lattice on my shelf this afternoon and had to do it now while the thought was simmering. Unless I work from a pattern which I have not done for years really, with a few exceptions, the end result is never known to me till the end. Eg, with this quilt I started with scrap 3" strips chosen randomly and it just went from there. I could never have told you when I started what it would look like because I didnt know. That is the absolute fun for me! So here is the next stage in the process of making this pink quilt.
A good scrap quilt moves the eye around the quilt seeing interesting things along the way. It is a struggle for me to keep a quilt calm, yet interesting. Maybe I should give up the calm thing since it is not me, but I think it is a challenge. I had planned for his quilt to be calm. I am seeing interesting, but not calm.
2 comments:
Lovin this set together with the pink check! Is the pink check 100% cotton? I have lots of the old-fashioned poly-cotton ginghams and didn't know whether they would work as well.
Brenda...the Farmer's Dotter
farmersdotter@frontiernet.net
Thank you Brenda. Yes, the pink check in 100% cotton. It is hard to find, but Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC has it in 100% cotton in many colors.
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