So after a week of high-pressure back to work frenzy, I devoted my whole Saturday to making a strip quilt top. Jim took the kids grocery shopping and out to the dollar store. I listened to books on tape from The Teaching Company (Origins of Ancient Civilizations) and quite happily sewed away the day.
I'd been carrying around my little piece of paper that I gluestick scraps of fabric on so I can get all in a tizzy over my quilt-to-be while I drive back and forth to work. I liked the wallpaper strip quilt in Kaffe Fassett's book because it looked very, very quick and easy. Plus I had the mood to do the ultimate quilter's no-no which is to rip fabric into strips. I know I am supposed to cut them neatly but life truly is so much better when you can just rip and let out all that stress and aggression.
I'm not in love with it, but I like it well enough. It goes with my bedroom and maybe when I finish it, I will look more fondly on it.
I'm trying to decide on a border for it. I feel like this is too dark, but maybe it needs something dark.
I've been thinking of doing a pink one with green, brown, and turquoise accents.
School has started back, and I'm so busy I sometimes forget to breathe. On the way to and from work I've been listening to The Teaching Company's Classical Mythology. I've got a little addiction going with these audiotapes.
1 comment:
This is a very different quilt for you. I am not really liking the blue border, I think because it looks too busy. I am seeing one of the gold fabrics followed by a dark brown fabric (but not a busy fabric). Or maybe a dark brown first to give definition followed by a slightly larger gold strip to pick up on the gold in the strips. You will have to play around with it. Not bad for a weekends worth of work. I love the idea of doing the pink strip quilt. That will be very lovely.
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