A Month in Summary

It’s already been a month since my last post.  I have been on a bender of quilting, having found a zeal for finishing several pieced quilt tops that have been in storage for some years now.  If the impulse is there, I like to ride the wave until it’s played out.  Here are the quilts I finished:

This twin-size quilt has a nice 1970’s era color scheme.  I originally did this pattern because I liked how straight lines could create a circular motif.  I did a lot of accent quilting in the solid brown areas, and used a different thread color for each column, so over the width of the quilt there is a subtle gradation of color, that doesn’t take away from appreciating the pattern.

I’ve had this queen-size peacock themed quilt for awhile.  Originally this was to be the backside of another peacock themed quilt I did.  The other quilt I did was all in neutrals, and this side is jewel-toned.  The piecing pattern is the same for both.  I never figured out how to work my thread colors for each side, so I decided to make separate quilts.  For some of the center panel I went to a local quilt shop to play on their longer machine, but most of the quilt was done on my machine at home (I LOVE my Bernina!)  The quilt is so expansive, I have no good way of displaying it to photograph.

The back is a burgundy color, so I played with thread colors and you can see all the feathers I sewed.

There is one more quilt top to complete, but I’m taking a break.  I FINALLY created my Sun Catcher project that I mentioned in my Distilling the Moment post.

I designed this project with consideration of how our brains access memories.  Each time we remember, we are further away from the actual time/space experience that we had.  Each memory is a distillation of a core event.  So I was thinking about how our awareness is what illuminates our recollection, and there are many layers we access with every recollection.  The layers may seem transparent, our memories may seem like they are true to the actual experience, but the layers lead away from us and our current point in time/space.  We look back into memory, often as a consideration of how much our current moments have moved us away from what was. So, fast approaching, are instructions for The Journey of Memory Sun Catcher…..they’ll be here and gone before you know it!