Lately I’ve been a bit of an uncommitted crafter. I don’t have much time to indulge in making and so it feels even worse not to have something I love to work on right now that I can come home to and cuddle with on the couch at the end of a long work day. So I just wander from one work-in-progress to another, never settling into one because the chemistry just isn’t right.
But I think that stack of Oakshott shot cottons I showed you yesterday just put a ring on it. I want to do all sorts of untoward things to those colors. Smooching shot cotton isn’t all that pleasant (don’t ask), but I do plan to commune with it in the way we commune with super sexy textiles. Do you know what I mean? Do ya?
An aside: this romantic metaphor kind of goes off the rails when the rotary cutter comes out, doesn’t it? Yikes.
Lynne shared some scraps of this shot cotton with me while that stack was on the way in the mail. And I immediately dug in with just making some random patchwork to get a feel for how the fabric handles.
I made as many 2.5″ quarter-square triangles I could and then started to improvise with the remaining scraps. Really, these colors kill me! I just wanted to keep combining and re-combining different pairs of colors to see what would happen. It all seemed a bit magical.
Anyway, I’m playing around with some overall design ideas using these QSTs and the improv blocks. It’ll be nice to get going with the stack of fat-eighths and see where things go and it will be a great way to spend some of my free time on my work break next week.
I’m ready to settle down with this project and try some monogamish-ness for a while.
those are beautiful colors.
So happy you found project love with these. They’re gorgeous.
It sounds serious. ;) I don’t blame you one bit, and I’m so excited to hear you’ve found a monogam-ish project to settle down with. I feel pretty scatter-brained lately, but I’m guessing that won’t change for a couple of months, so I’m embracing it, and finishing things when I can. I look forward to a project love like this soon, though.
these are beautiful.
Between you and Lilly posting I have weakened. Me thinks I’ll be ordering a stack of color too.
Monogamy or playing the field, it will be great to see what you do with those gorgeous colors. Just in time for Spring!
I always love your pictures.
So fun! The endless possibilities of combining color and shape.
so pretty c!
Looks like a good antidote to too-many-projects-at-once syndrome! I love the variety of colours you’ve got there.
I’m struggling with commitment at the moment too. It’s exactly like chemistry. I’m waiting for the right thing to happen to me. Usually pops up after a shower…
It’s spring. The hormones are flowing. Of course, you want to fall deeply, obsessively, in love and have a mad, passionate, every-waking-moment affair and make something meaningful of it. Then, by next January, you two can snuggle up together and have fond memories of how you began.
(I have no idea how the rotary cutter fits into this daydream, either, but of course, every couple must eventually find out how they deal with discord. You can only hope that the two of you emerge on the other, bound together even more tightly and more beautifully for having gone through the fights, the anger, the cutting remarks.)
(I haven’t even had my tea yet this morning – see what you do to me?!)