I got back at the sewing machine yesterday, to work on a few wheel of fortune blocks. These are from the book History Repeated and I thought maybe they could make a nice quilt for my husband's cousin who is getting married in the summer. They are in their 30s and have a bit of a modern taste, but also traditional. I thought I'd set these in zig zag pattern, maybe with black. I' ve made about eight blocks so far, and I'm thinking...no matter how I set these, this isn't going to work for Linda and her fiancee. Now what?
And then I pull out another project, "pick up sticks" from a pattern in Fons & Porter magazine, September 2011. Hmmm,,,I don't think this is going where I want to either! This one was going to possibly be for my niece who is going away to school in the fall. On second thought, I just might continue on with this one. Its easy and making good use of my batik scraps.So then I spent a couple of hours thumbing through patterns, and reviewing patterns on EQ, and here is the end of the story. I don't like to make a quilt particularly for a person in mind. I have to want to make the quilt because I like it, no other reason, and then as a bonus, at some point in the quiltmaking the idea would strike that oh! this quilt would be great for so and so. The people who have received quilts from me have, I know, really liked them and use them. The quilts represents what I think this person or couple would enjoy having, and I've enjoyed making them.
