Anyway, I just came across this quilt. See how important it is to date your work?! I would have guessed “2008” as the time frame for this poppy, but stitching reveals that it was made in 2002.
I keep wanting to ‘get back’ to poppies and keep finding that I don’t.
Do any of you, dear readers, have themes or images that you developed/loved and that were well-received and that you keep saying you will ‘get back to’ and then don’t?!!
Why, I wonder.
Maybe it’s not enough to go back to something just because other people liked it. Not sure. Ideas, responses welcome!
Today’s the busy day – writing class in the a.m. (Yikes! must bathe! Must eat breakfast! Must do Morning Pages (writing class is so much better if I do them first)) and then my quilting class (here, thankfully) in the afternoon.
I don’t know. I haven’t really been quilting long enough for that, but I can say that I really love the simple repetitive act of taking one shape and just stitching that. I’ve made four quilts that way and I would not really call any of them simple.
make that five. so i suppose if there’s something i come back to it’s that.
something i keep wanting to come back to and don’t.
anything involving a grand layout. the kids fiddle with it a little too much and i find it overwhelming and a buzz kill to spend hours trying to fix it all back to just sew a couple of pieces.
life dictates form sometimes – think Wallace Stevens, writing his short little poems on his doctor’s script pad… You’re right to point out the quilting is inherently repetitive.