Ever since I wrote the home page for my website and said that my quilts are intended for adults, I’ve designed nothing but kids stuff. How embarassing. Well, not really, but I am beginning to feel like a fraud. My head is currently stuffed full of ideas and every single one of them is for a cot quilt or a nappy bag or a toy… I wonder if it also has something to with joining the Artful Quilters Web Ring?? I can’t think of a single grown-up or artistic thing to do! Have I told you that sometimes I work in a bank? (VERY grown-up!) A couple of weeks ago, a customer looked at my Licorice Allsorts bracelet and asked, “Did your kids make you that?” I felt VERY overheated, all of a sudden, and mumbled, “no, I did.” She laughed. I got hotter.
Here is this weeks Work in Progress. It was inspired by my sign-up for a swap of 1 1/2″ squares. When I calculated how many of those little suckers it was going to take to make a decent sized quilt, I decided (Rather cleverly, I thought. I was wrong.) to make applique blocks that would fill HALF the space, thereby reducing the number of teeny, tiny, itty, bitty squares by half. They have probably taken twice as long to make as piecing the little squares!
But, they have been very inspiring and now I’m planning an Alien Quilt. Yay!