- I am almost done the quilt for my friend's wedding
- I am about to lose my sewing room for a week
- all my other project is at the point where there is only machine sewing left to be done
- I have an insane amount of travel coming up in October,
I think that I should start on my next project.
I am leaving the compass for now, since it will require a lot of thinking/shopping/dying the right fabrics. I really want to do something geometric after working with bulges for so long.
Up for consideration are:
Another sphere. Note that I did sit down and figure out the pattern from the ceiling in Dali's museum - thank goodness for insomnia! I have tried to make spheres like this a couple of times, slowly iterating towards the right technique. I want to make the sphere itself about 60" wide (which makes most of the pieces about 6" x 9", I am happy to say!Kevin really likes this option. He wants me to map on "land" colours according to Earth (or a similar planet). I am also considering making it in yellow/orange/red, and quilting it in corona and swirls for a sun. It could be a really fun one!
Second option:
A systematic study of rotating cubes. Each rotated cube would be scaled to the same size as a 2" tumbling block cube, and would be in a larger hexagon with a 4" side length, so that everything would map onto a classic tumbling blocks pattern (like I did for my "truly tumbling" quilt). I would make it with Japanese folding, so that it would be pretty modular and easy. I have big ideas for how to dye the fabrics.
This one makes more sense if I want to post patterns on my website (when will I ever get back to that?). Also, if any of the dyeing etc. goes wrong, I can throw a bunch of bits into a baby quilt for the upcoming niece or nephew.
Any thoughts?
(Off to the last day of the quilt exhibit!)
Kirsten
As an independent third party, I agree with your husband Kevin. You should listen to him in matters of quilting and otherwise. He also sounds handsome, witty and virile.
ReplyDeleteAnd not at all biased!!
ReplyDeleteI think that you should do whatever decreases your stress level the most - some people job - you quilt (I like the idea of quilting more because you are at least left with a finished product and something to show for your work, other than a few cramps. Ok, you get those too, but there's a point to them!!)
Thanks for visiting my blog yesterday so that I could find yours!
ReplyDeleteI think you should plan on a project that can be a "take along" for your insane traveling in October... if you time it right it could be "in a kit" to be packed in your purse or such... maybe hand piecing? Hope that gives you an inspirational direction! lol
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