HOLD EVERYTHING!

I just read your comments and see that I have mislead you. I showed you PARTS of the new piece I am making, not small works. I can see how you could have inferred that these were new little quilts, since I mentioned making this Make a Small Work Week, or some such thing the other day...

BUT NO!

I am in the last stages of a huge-for-me piece. It is about 60" square, altho far from square and it is so different and thrilling that I forgot to get dressed yesterday and worked 12 hours straight on it. Then again I fell into bed directly after dinner (which Dave started himself!!!) and woke up at 1 to sketch some more works in this series.

Of course it is majorly RED and the other fabrics had to be freshly dyed to work as the contrast. They are neutrals. They look like actual colors in this picture but BELIEVE ME they are practically white. The camera tried hard to make them look like a color. They are so light but are just yummy against the intensity of the reds, oranges, and fucshias.

Then I dug into the archives and found that I still had all these grays which I dyed for sale ages ago. I am so happy no one saw the worth of these neutrals and now they are all fused and ready to add to the composition.

I never did pay the bills yesterday, and never got dressed either. That just goes to show you that I am engrossed. I hope to finish the top by tomorrow and not a minute sooner. I am so enjoying the process.

Yes! I finally get it. I had been focusing on the block trying to find a way to make it into a series, but I discovered for me it had to be the layout. The LAYOUT. The grand plan. THE BIG PICTURE. The structure not the parts. The parts are fun to make, each different, each integral to the whole, all dependent on each other until the thing becomes itself. But the fact that they are not the thing is the big discovery.

It will change how I teach.