There’s only one way to deal with a basket full of fabrics
and an overflowing stash – make several scrap quilts in different colour schemes. So I’ve been cutting shapes in a flurry of
activity.
There is no tidy way of
managing this process and some of you will smile knowingly when I cry out in
almost despair that ‘the more I cut, the more the leftovers seem to
multiply’. Maddening!
We’ve been living amongst a blizzard of threads for the past
week. If you bump into me in the street
feel free to pick the lint off my clothes.
If you see a business man around town with a ‘furry’ looking suit take
pity on him for he belongs to me and has been neglected for days.
My pinks, greens and soft feminine fabrics are going into this one
My yellows with a hint of mauve and pink are being teemed with a grey
A friend has kindly lent me her accuquilt Go to mass cut tumbler block and apple core shapes. This is a gadget that I wouldn’t buy for
myself (I’d rather spend the money on fabrics) but I’m grateful to have the
opportunity to use it. Alas it wasn’t
designed to tidy up after me.
Greens and blues with some randoms thrown in for interest
Novelty prints and brights are being 'apple cored'
I’m working with purpose - hoping to complete a few more
unfinished projects and make a larger dent in my stash before going out and
buying new fabrics. The logic is that, with
cleared cupboards and a brain relieved of the pressures of old projects, my
creative juices will start flowing once I have an entirely new range of
material. Perhaps then I will manage to
come up with some completely fresh designs?
Until then I’ve got to live by the motto: when life gives
you scraps make quilts.
