9 January 2007

Back to quilting ...

With the new year picking up in speed, I've started quilting again to save my sanity. In the past few (rocky) years, especially hand quilting has helped me save my sanity because of its evident progress and result at the end of each session. I am a very results-oriented person and while I can lose myself in small details and intricacies, I want to see RESULTS!

So I'm quite happily quilting away on my Turning Twenty. I've decided to not obsess about the fact that a lot of corners don't line up. What's bothering me at the moment is that the hand quilting does not really show up on the back all that much. I'm therefore considering embellishing it with beads. We shall see ...

One thing is clear though: as much as I attempt to "plan" my quilts for a better result, they always evolve into something I didn't envision at the planning stage. So far, I'm pleased with the outcome.



(and will post more up-to-date photos soon!)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

its amazing how our creative muse shines even through our best laid plans isn't it :-)

Anonymous said...

Oh! embellish with BEADS...what a GRAND idea and thanks!

New quilter here, doing a Google search on quilting blogs...ran across your wonderful site because my first bed sized quilt is Turning Twenty. Your's is beeyoutiful!

Girlfriend & I just started an e-zine for Fiber Femmes and want to include/invite quilters & other fiber folks to visit us www.fiberfemmes.com .

Anonymous said...

I like! Yeah, quilts have a way of showing our personalities- realy hard to deny it!