The past week or so I've been working on Laura's quilt...which is now nothing like I had planned, but instead is from a pattern by Kim Diehl. My "swirly layer cake" idea was a good one, just wrong choice of the accent colour, it was too muddy and when I laid out a few rows, the overall design wasn't coming through.
I'm nearing 80 blocks needed for the Kim Diehl pattern (simple blocks!), and now my mind is wandering with what next? Lots of tops I'm looking forward to quilting...a few quilts that need more piecing or assembly... some garment sewing I'd like to do. But nothing was getting me going with plans in my head...the fun of deciding how I'm going to quilt something, or the steps closer to finishing a top.
Into my mail box landed an email from Craftsy, describing a class called Stupendous Stitching...watching the previews, I realized this was just what I needed to get out of a rut I've been in with all my traditional and pattern following. Just play! With all the threads I've collected, and all the stitches on my Horizon. I'm not saying I'm going to become an art quilter (ha!), but I do think this class will make me stretch creatively and give me some things to think about, even in my approach to traditional quilting.
