Purple Plan

 You all know that I don't start any quilt unless I kinda sorta know where I am going to go with it, and I don't work on more than one quilt at a time. With the Carnelian quilt done and its backing ready, it was time to start thinking about the next quilt, the purple one.

Just like I had never made an all Orange quilt, I have also never made an all purple one. So a few weeks ago I ordered a stack of purple fabrics. I ran them through the washer and dryer and pressed and folded them all, but I had no idea what I was going to do with them. I did know I wanted to do something I had never done before.

Turns out the inspiration for the quilt lt was living on the back of my couch. That is the Partly Sunny quilt. It has quite a story. Julie designed the top, had second thoughts, redesigned it, sewed it together and then had third thoughts. It languished in her studio for almost a year. It took me that long to get up the nerve to tell her I liked her original design much better and that I really, Really, REALLY liked it. It got to be quite a joke between us. After many months of good natured ribbing, Julie sent me the flimsy and I added the wide border and had it quilted and finished it.

ANYWAY... I thought, HST's! What an idea!

I know that a lot of quilters use AccuCut to cut HST's, but I do not have one, and I knew there are spiffy ways to make multiple HST's so I searched the internet to find some. Naturally, that was easy as pie.

I found a nifty way to make 8 of them at once. After I tested the technique, I started cutting my fabrics.

Here are the light purples. My HST's will be light and dark. I have about 20 - 24 darks and 15 lights I will use. I have some others that are a bit too dark to be light, and some that are a bit too busy. Some of these might push the envelope, but I don't want a humdrum quilt, so we'll see.

Now I might be a few more days before I get to blogging again because I have to do my taxes and we all know how much fun that is.

by the way, this is the jigsaw puzzle I'm working one. QUITE a challenge, this!