On Starting A New Project...

"Little Letters"  ~ Temecula Quilt Company

A few weeks ago I was alerted by Quiltkeemosabe to a new tutorial, an alphabet quilt, beginning over at Temecula Quilt Co.'s blog (linked below photo).  Yesterday the first letter, and installment of this series, was published; this will make up as an adorable little quilt!  I'm in! I love letters, I love old-fashioned samplers; what's not to love?  The only decision here is what fabrics to choose.  Why would I consider starting even one more new project right now? I was puzzled by that myself... and then I read this quote, on creativity:  "The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again.  Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream." - Marilyn Harris  There you have it. I've finished up more than a few long-standing projects recently. I NEED to start something new simply to acheive balance; my creative spirit demands it! Who am I to argue?

Life is Good!

Pieceful Playtime

Late this past summer I decided to take all of the leftover low volume fabric scraps from the two Chicken Soup quilts I was making for my children for Christmas and, following the Star Flower tutorial over at A Crafty Fox's blog, cut them into sixty degree diamonds. I needed three hundred diamonds to make fifty star flowers, as luck would have it, because I didn't know when to stop collecting fabrics, that wasn't a problem at all!  The stars themselves went together as easy as could be.
I was fearful of setting the stars into rows though, I worried about setting in the hexagon shapes and getting all those star points to line up. As it turned out the worry was for nothing.

The first two rows went together without a hitch this weekend. It took some time, careful attention was paid to pinning and to pressing, but as you can see it went together smoothly. This project isn't one for the "Quilt In A Day" crowd; not at all! This is one quilt that will grow and develop over the next few months. I will work on it when I have long, free afternoons and evenings...on those rare occasions when I can take my time and really enjoy the piecing process. I absolutley love what is unfolding here; all from those Chicken Soup leftovers. Can't you just imagine this one quilted? I can...

Life is Good!