I love questions. Somebody asked me once, "Where do you start?" Where do you start WHAT? I asked back. "Where do start when you sew your quilts together? When you sew the blocks and the rows together. Do you start at the top left?"
I laughed. "Well, you gotta remember, if the quilt is on the design wall, I can't REACH the top. I'm five feet tall. So I start with what I can reach. That's somewhere in the middle. I usually work my way down, and save getting up and down the ladder until later."
That's what I am doing with Blue Ice (or Ice Blue as I have been calling it lately.) I start somewhere in the middle with something that interests me, and go from there. There is no scientific, right or wrong way to do it. SOMETIMES I'll even grab two blocks, sew them together, put them back on the design wall, then grab two more. It is an extremely inefficient way to work, but sometimes I'm not in the mood to figure out how to sew a whole bunch of blocks together and make sure they are oriented correctly. Sometimes I just want to take my time, and work my way through it slowly.
By the way, the rows with the big blocks missing at the ends are those that are waiting for more deep space fabric to arrive.
This is going together so quick I am very soon going to have to start thinking about what I will do next.
oh dear.
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For some of the larger quilts I have made the only place I have been able to lay them out fully has been on my living room floor upstairs and my sewing room is downstairs! Those days were a great cardio workout!
I love learning from every thing you do!
I love the dark blue colors.
I had to chuckle when you commented "oh dear" to having to start thinking about what to do next. It never takes you long to find inspiration and get creative, just looking at things around you. I'm learning to do that by your example.
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