It is totally awesome and I feel AMAZING have all that stuff organized and in one place. Unfortunately, cleaning up and organizing all of my sewing and quilting things took me the better part of an entire week to accomplish. Well worth it, but not a lot of free time for sewing.
In between the sorting of patterns and folding of fabric, I did find a wee bit of time to work on my Little Bouquet Quilt Along wall hanging. It has been very cathartic since the Summer of Rain has kept us all on the edge of a knife over here.
For those of you who don't know me, I am a very structured type of person. If I could carry a ruler around all day, I would. So to free form and not use a pattern and not be matchy-matchy well... that is just a thing unheard of!
Keeping that in mind, here is how my LBQA has been coming along...
This is my background which was created sewing different size green prints onto lightweight interfacing. I had never tried this method before and it worked out pretty great. As you can see, in this stage I hadn't really broken free of my rigidness and joked with Cherri and the other's about maybe being a little too "Type A" for this project.
Next step: creating the flowers.
As I sorted through my fabric, I chose pieces that I would never in a million years think about quilting with. I used a lot of dupioni and home dec, a little velvet and brocade, felted wool and linen. It's funny though how it's like a little reminder of projects I've completed in the past. In this photo, for example, I see silk eye pillows, Ava's Christmas dress when she was two and the curtains that currently hang in my kitchen!
I LOVED making these roses! It was so much fun to just put random fabrics together and sew them in crooked lines to one another. Who knew I could be so reckless! big laughs here guys!
And then... attach the flowers to my background. VOILA!
The kids were quite impressed with my latest creation. Especially Edzo who is very much a little miniature version of myself. I stitched the flowers on using an olive green colored thread using circular stitches as Cherri did and I also added three little leaves. I'm lovin' how this is coming out!
I now have LOTS more sewing to do this summer but will work on this when I can. When it's all done I hope to hang it in my new sewing studio. That's right, "sewing studio" - not "sewing room." I'm an artist now, can't ya tell??
This is great. Thanks for the link. I, too, am a bit "ruler" obsessive and this would be a good exercise in letting go. It's looking great, your pics are excellent.
ReplyDeleteI was so excited to see these added to the flickr group that I had to pop over, and read about your journey! Your little bouquet looks wonderful...good job!!!
ReplyDeletewow, shel! you go girl!
ReplyDeletei love how you reminisce about the fabrics -- that is so perfect and what i think of when i think of quilting -- the fabric of our lives (okay, a little too 90s cotton commercial, but you get the point)
little reckless, shellie. what will she whip up next?!
love you!
elyse
xo
aaaahhh...so,when do we get you to throw caution to the wind and say...........not do the dishes one day???!!!!!!!!!
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