My studio is clean, and I took a small break from working in there. I wrote a few quilt stories, but writing isn't the same as working. I'm planning a new tutorial, but that won't happen just yet. I didn't know what my next quilt would be.
Inspiration always pops up though. This is the back wall of Studio C, where my Chair Yoga class is held. I've been taking the class for the last ten weeks and looked at this wall when I walked in the door, and it never really hit me until yesterday. That arrangement of three windows over two has possibilities, so before class I got up to take a picture. Needless to say everybody wanted to know why. I don't know what I'll do with it yet, but that's not my concern. Something will pop up.
I was writing the story of the Lightning in the Night Sky quilt, and I love working with those curved blocks. I thought, I'll make another one! But as my friend Janet said to me the other day, when I commented about the size of my stash, "You have to think of it as, 'I can't die until I use that all up!'"
So I looked at my stash. What did I have a lot of that I could use up?
The answer was Brights on Black. And what to use with it?
That answer was Black on white, but I also wanted to use up some Brights on White.
Now fear not, those aren't the only fabrics I chose. Each pile of fabric has ten strips in it, so you can't see 90% of the fabrics I chose.
The object was to cut as many strips as I could from the fabrics that I chose, like this one. I can get one WOF strip. The rest I will cut into Macnas sized blocks for a quilt sometime later. Although this did reduce the quantity of those fabrics in my stash, I still have a lot of quilts to make before I made a serious sized dent in the stash. But one step at a time. you don't eat a whale in one sitting.
This is a small preview of where I am going, but even this doesn't tell the whole story. This was as far as I got, but hey, I cut 70 dark strips and 70 light strips in one day!
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