Ice Blue

 

I added a small deep space border to the Ice Blue quilt.

Here is the finished flimsy on top of the fabric I have selected for the backing. This quilt is going to be gorgeous. Or maybe "handsome" isn't a better term.

This isn't the quilt I had expected to make, but that is what making art is all about. It's about following an idea where it takes you, and if it's a dead end, then you have to switch gears and figure something else out. You can't judge your end result against the first IDEA you had. Because an idea is only an idea. It doesn't exist until you make it real. If I had not brought you all along on the road of this quilt from first inspiration to the final quilt, you would never know that I had stalled.

However, I do think the color story of the quilt matches the original color story I had in my head, and that works for me.

On to the next thing.

Ice Blue Slides to the Finish Line!

 

My extra fabric arrived on Friday and I was able to get it through the washer and dryer before my "work day" ended so I could get right to it after dinner. (Actually I brought Megan's quilt to FedEx first.)

Gosh, it is so nice to work in a super clean studio. Nothing to shove over... I should do it more often (LOL).

By ten PM on Friday I had this. The top was all sewn together. The last step was to sew the blocks in the bottom two rows together. I wanted to get the top finished before I went to bed.

Mission Accomplished. Now I want to add a small border of the deep space fabric all around.

This is the fabric I have chosen for the backing of the Ice Blue quilt.

Where Do You Start?

 

 

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.