No sooner does one squirrel escape my little
studio than another appears!
I've begun a quilt using pretty large half hexagons, pattern by
Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession, featured in a copy of
Quiltmania Simply Moderne.
Some of the fabrics are coming from large scrap pieces, others
from fabrics awaiting storing in their respective places.
Just playing with the pieces here on the design wall.
I took the plunge and bought the Hex N More ruler
by Jaybird Quilts, I didn't want to spend the time
copying the pattern pieces from the magazine and cutting from those, the
ruler is fantastic!
The pattern is called Chain Link Horizons.
I've enrolled for the
Colorwash 360 Online Course
with
lots of you will be familiar with her stunning
colorwash quilts, couldn't pass up on this chance.
The nearest I have come to trying to create a blended feel in
a quilt is the one below,
Red Sea Sunset, an HST quilt along a few years ago.
Inspired by sailing through the Red Sea in 1962
on our way to New Zealand from England.
Using mostly batiks and the reverse side of many fabrics
to achieve the b lend from one colour to another.
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My Kaffe Fassett and Philip Jacobs fabrics will come into play
with Colorwash 360. first module is on Monday.
Somehow I need to fit in actual quilting and headed for a Tula Pink
quilt top, made last year and basted and backed all ready to go.
Opened the drawer of neatly folded quilt tops and had to take a 'phone call,
when I arrived back someone had found a cosy spot to relax.
I'd like to finish off with a photo yesterday of one of my
favourite early morning sights at this time of year, the moon with Venus
sitting high above.
Whenever I look at the dawn sky and see the moon, in whatever quarter,
I think of my favourite few lines by Isak Dinesen /Karen Blixen in
'Out of Africa'
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”
Maureen
