My post today will be in reverse order to explain how I get ideas.
This is sewing from 2 nights, 82 blocks. (total number from several days = 269). As I was sewing them, I was considering an all triangle square center of a baby quilt. I was trying to decide if all of the ones with the same 2 fabrics would be grouped together or if I would spread them out in a random grouping. Then I started thinking about how else I could use them: a small center with a border around it and then another round of triangle squares and a final border. Then......I thought about one of the boxes I found in the basement earlier in the day.
The top box is the one I am talking about, with 4.5" squares and 4.5" x 8.5" rectangles. Then I remembered a quilt top I have made fairly recently.
What if I used the triangles to make a quilt top similar to this one (which is Marcia Derse fabric)? The larger rectangles are already the right size and I would just need to cut the narrow rectangles. I could use this as my master plan but change the layout if I thought it needed to be changed.
This solidifies my idea that keeping busy and making pieces for the parts department keeps the designing mind active.
So, back to yesterday morning, I found these 2 boxes on one shelf below the boxes of flannel pieces. I have used some of the Kaffe flying geese in another quilt top...one I can't decide if it is finished or needs more (like a calming border).
I have LOTS of drawers and boxes full of strips, all labeled. When I have a project in mind that will use strips, I usually search through the boxes and drawers to see if I can use the strips in them or would be better off cutting new strips.
I need to keep looking to see what I have missed. I have about a dozen project boxes I haven't looked in yet.
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I've been doing the same thing with my 4-patches! Do I put two alike in one block or spread them out. Do I organize by color or make it purely random. So much to think about while I'm pushing them under the needle.
Your thought process rocks! It certainly does pay to keep current what is in your stash.
I always enjoy your posts that show your process and stash organization.
I love this block!
Having a parts department is excellent!
Using your MD quilt as a pattern for a future quilt is such a great idea...I find it hard to re-envision any "made" quilt in different fabrics...
35 here and sunny--maybe an outside walk in the latter part of the morning would be possible? i hope so--I am heartily sick of the treadmill--though it surely is needed...
I will be re-layering my Strawberries sometime today, if my back is willing!--and "the creek don't rise" hahaha--.
I also took the Large Ojos apart in half and made a square instead of that 64" long runner...
hugs, for a good week Julierose
I love that MD quilt - what a useful design (in many variations). And yes, having parts to play with definitely helps keep the brain. designing!
I love the way the fabric is so organized by size, collection etc, makes it so much easier to pull out what you think you want or if you decide to sell some of the pieces too.
Your world evolves around designing on a daily basis and all that goes into creating how big or small a top is going to be, keeps the mind churning non stop. I so admire your daily devotion to your Art of quilt making.
I like that term "calming border." People don't realize there is a lot of mind-work to completing a quilt top. When I am not in front of the machine, I am working out the design in my mind.
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