All is Right with the World

At last I have run out of excuses and am back at work in the studio. I had a few interruptions like washing out dyed fabric and sending off patterns and running to the copy place and cooking all those chicken breasts en masse for my chicken and salad diet, but finally by three pm I was actually cutting into fabric.

Immediately a sense of well being came over me.

I must say that all those interruptions actually were part of the design process. Several times during the day the lightbulb went on and my art plan changed for the better. I should insert here that I am remaking a quilt in a smaller size to make a new pattern for sale. I could have just reduced the original, but I thought I could improve it and yes, make it a bit easier to do for beginning fusers. However, it has now become much more involved, but will require no fancy quilting, so that is a plus.
When I make a quilt for myself, I like to leave some wide open spaces where I can quilt nice designs, and be a show-off. But as I often tell my students, not every quilt needs fancy quilting.
This one will suffice with quilt-in-the ditch, and no one will mind, or even notice.

Most, no, all of my other patterns are really applique looking designs and I thought this time I would make one that is pieced. Fused-pieced, I mean. There are parts that are appliques but the thing is really going to be closer to patchwork, more than pictorial. This is an experiment, since I don't know if patchwork type patterns sell as well as applique things, so I am compromising and including both techniques.

I think it is boring to talk about what I am going to do. I am just going to go do it and get back to you later.

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