I have become obsessed with even more new ideas lately. If you have followed me for long you may realize my creativity goes in spurts along certain paths. I draw certain things for awhile, then right in the midst of that I find something new that inspires me and I start that, and so it goes, eventually going back to where I started in circles. It is hard to finish a project but always so tempting to start new ones. But then, when I do finally finish things, I finish a lot all at once. Sadly I haven't quite finished the Bee Queen children's book I started a year ago, or the rest of the 5 or so projects I am working on but I found so many new inspiring things lately.
1. I made this board of ideas on pinterest because I wanted to decide what to do with the fabric swatches I created at spoonflower lately. I was planning on making a charm quilt. I have always loved them, the look and the story behind a charm quilt.
I wanted to make a hexagon one as it is just so "charming", and I love the honeycomb shape.
2. But doing that led me to this!!!!!!!!!!!
So stunningly beautiful, and full of possibilities. Any quilters out there may have heard of ...
5. this book and the Passacaglia quilt I assume, but I had not. Once I found it I started seeing people all over the web are making it and posting about it and every single one is gorgeous! I realized I could take one of my painted mandalas, make part of it into fabric on spoonflower, then using English paper piecing and fussy cutting, I could turn that into a quilted mandala or kaleidoscope or millefiori quilt and it could just go in circles and circles! That seemed so inspiring! So, of course I jumped right in, not waiting to buy the book or the templates or papers, just starting. Nothing so grand as that passaglia quilt right away. As I have never paper pieced that seemed a little to ambitious for my first project, but I did start fussy cutting some hexagons.... Now I am not good at getting corners to match up, I have never been able to. My mother is the quilter, when she pieces a quilt she can't even get her corners to be crooked if she tries. I should do a post of her quilts someday. But I thought I might be able to get my corners to match with paper piecing, and it turned out a bit better than when I have tried piecing on the machine....I made myself a hexagon template so I could see the piece I was cutting...
3. and this!
4. and this!
5. this book and the Passacaglia quilt I assume, but I had not. Once I found it I started seeing people all over the web are making it and posting about it and every single one is gorgeous! I realized I could take one of my painted mandalas, make part of it into fabric on spoonflower, then using English paper piecing and fussy cutting, I could turn that into a quilted mandala or kaleidoscope or millefiori quilt and it could just go in circles and circles! That seemed so inspiring! So, of course I jumped right in, not waiting to buy the book or the templates or papers, just starting. Nothing so grand as that passaglia quilt right away. As I have never paper pieced that seemed a little to ambitious for my first project, but I did start fussy cutting some hexagons.... Now I am not good at getting corners to match up, I have never been able to. My mother is the quilter, when she pieces a quilt she can't even get her corners to be crooked if she tries. I should do a post of her quilts someday. But I thought I might be able to get my corners to match with paper piecing, and it turned out a bit better than when I have tried piecing on the machine....I made myself a hexagon template so I could see the piece I was cutting...
And after a week, using mostly my fabrics from spoonflower but also some "borrowed" from my mother, I am here...
*linking with paintpartyfriday as I feel I am "painting"with fabric, and also to fabric friday....
