Apologies for blog silence and my failure to respond to (and make) comments - I've had no computer for a little bit. It just switched off one evening and never switched back on. Now I have one again, but sadly not masses of progress to share. Current progress looks like this.
Sew Slowly
Friday, 24 June 2022
Locked out
Friday, 27 May 2022
A bit of whingeing, a bit of sewing
Whingeing first, plus an apology. I turned comment moderation on, because I was sick of having idiotic spam comments under my posts. Somehow that messed with the bit of blogger that sends things to my inbox. So I read your comment, I ticked that it was a bona fide, not at all bot-sent, quilt-related comment, and boom, it was on the blog but nowhere else. You might think that getting on the blog is the most important bit, and you would have a point, but I rather fear that there will be a few commenters who haven't had responses from me because it took me a while to realise the inbox version wasn't turning up. If this has happened to you, I apologise. Anyway, for now I have removed comment moderation. My brain is currently quite scattered enough -I don't want to go losing comments left, right and centre!
Anyway...on to the quilting. Perhaps this is also reflective of my distracted state of mind. That's to say progress is slow. Here are just a couple of versions that have been laid out in the last few days.
I have played around with adding a variety of different bits and pieces. The denim strips with skinny inserts will stay, I think. The jury is out on those very dark bits at the bottom of the photo above.I tried adding bigger bits of that pretty, used-to-be-a-dress print,but they have gone already. They just made it all a bit too busy for my liking.
I am still looking at this from all sides and still looking for the best way to put in the extra green. I only have the two pieces you can see above and enough for maybe one more wide-ish strip which forces me to think carefully. With the benefit of hindsight I wish that the two bits already in the quilt hadn't ended up looking almost the same length. Maybe I will unpick. Then again, maybe not!
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Which way is up?
I am still working on this from all sides, but realise that the photos are taken from a single point. This is just because of where the table and chairs are located; I tend to just swivel the chair I am sitting in and climb onto it to do the pictures, where as when I am working I roam all over the place.
Here are some progress shots. Mostly these are just bits lying on the floor. Every so often I go so far as to sew something to something else, but there's still a lot of shuffling. Nevertheless, in the interests of full disclosure, this is how it's been going...
Monday, 9 May 2022
Turning things around
Slow progress here. Firstly, I have had covid. Nothing horrendous, but nobody else in the family wanted it, so I was coralled in the spare room until I could produce a negative test. I did some hand quilting but that was my lot.
Once they let me out again, I pulled out some shirts I thought were worth trying with my existing fabrics, but nothing has really excited me. You can see below a few of the things I tried - mostly variations on blue or green, because that's what I have. I have also tried random other things - burnt orange, a gold bit, a red and blue plaid. Nope, nope and nope again.
Monday, 2 May 2022
Am I missing something?
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Unplanning
This quilt is still the boss of me but I am fine with that. I hadn't planned to do anything else with the chunky wedge shapes that I used in this and this, but nonetheless happened.
Saturday, 9 April 2022
I am definitely not the boss around here
Well, this is a new experience for me. I've had quilts tell me what to do before, many, many times. But I've never been bossed about by a shirt, before I even started turning it into a quilt. That is what has happened this week.
I wanted to start working to a colour scheme inspired by a photo, the latest AHIQ challenge. I had an initial pull from my shirt bag, which looked like this: