The Next Thing

Cherie was right when she predicted that my next project would be improvisational. But after a couple of quilts based on straight lines, you kinda had to know that I would do something off-kilter.

Given that my long-term goal is to use up as much fabric in my stash as I can in the next 15-20 years, I have decided to make quilt tops that please me. They may or may not have a purpose, or a reason, or a future home. I may or may not have them quilted. I'm going to take a look at the fabric in my stash and the bins and take whatever hits me at the moment, and do something with it.

In other words, I am going to Play. I am going to try to have some fun.

In January I made these as part of a proposal to teach a class based on Sujata Shah's method of making traditional blocks with gentle curves. Here I have arranged the blocks in a Rail Fence arrangement.

Here are the same number of green blocks arranged in a kind of zig-zag design.

As I looked around my studio and saw the leftover pieces of various projects, I decided to do something with these pieces.

Since I had made four blues and four greens, I knew that I had to have four pairs of the other colors - so I selected oranges, pinks and purples. I deliberately chose fairly plain darker fabrics and the lighter ones were mostly equally blender-ish, but I did allow a few of them to be larger, busier prints.

Here you can see all the pairs and the prints in detail.

That's the start!