So many milestones for me so far this year: its been rocky and I’m navigating a lot of changes as I approach 50 years old. I was inspired to make this little quilt from several color and contrast studies I made from a basket of unwashed Kona cotton scraps I bought off a guild member. I’m sharing evolution photos because that’s what blogging is for, but when I decided to connect the main color blocks with some other scraps and backgrounds, I was definitely thinking of my evolution through 3 “phases” of my life. As I came up with a composition I liked (no, the “3” was incidental but several people have noticed it and I agreed it referenced my abstract concept enough that I left it in there to tease out a script), I thought of the degeneration of entropy and heat death just as I was beginning to experience my first mild heat flushes – not quite warm enough to be uncomfortable, but definitely something new!
Here are some of the other color studies I played with from the scrap box I got from Emily Cier – there were many log cabin center squares in white and oyster, but also some reds and greens, and then mostly the box was 1.5″ strips in a variety of colors. I used every scrap of a discolored Kona Cerise scrap at the bottom of the box except what I trimmed from the top edge after quilting. Several retreat buddies have seen the strips go into several other projects but its tricky to work with them in other projects because I usually pre-wash my fabrics but these are skinny so I just press a lot! This 33×43 quilt is a stand alone scrap quilt, all Kona cottons mainly from this one scrap stash, but I think the Kona red is Ruby or Pomegranate from another guild member’s unwashed de-stashing when she moved to NY(thanks Deb!). Here are more pictures of the other color studies I started last January including a couple of the pieces I incorporated into this quilt.
mildly gifted 