Busy in Millinocket

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CQ / the sequel

I have to add a few more strips and embroider them too and then I'll be ready for sandwiching all the layers together and probably using buttons to tie them all together and hold the panels in place. Do you ever feel as though the only time you are working is when you are outside of the studio?

The ZONE

Welcome to my world here in the small town of Millinocket. The first crazy quilt pictured in this blog is hanging up in the local library. Another crazy quilt top is done and has been done for awhile. I need to finish it for a client soon, I haven't been posting here because I had the wrong browser, this is a lot less frustrating. It took me awhile but I finaly came up with a lead for the second crazy quilt. A card from the Met gave me the color scheme that I wanted to use. And then I went a chopping up fabric and making sure that no two colours touched as I sewed it back together. Embroidering all sorts of things onto this one, even a peacock feather and some spider webs. I always explain the spider webs in the quilt. They were considered good luck in European needlework way back when. My Quaker friend gave me a wonderful , inspiring book that helped the second quilt to evolve as far as the embroidery was concerned. I'm not a techie when it comes to sewing , I try to lead with my strengths and that would be sewing by hand. It's so soothing.

 

To be continued....

Crazy quilt or just plain crazy quilter/ you decide..........

 It seems like every time someone passes away in my life, that I make a quilt to heal from it with. I put a small knitted purse inside of the container that holds the quilt. It had a few candles in it so the scent that it carried was very strong and now whenever I put the quilt on my lap to work on it, I can smell the candles that are long gone. I can see the finish line with this quilt. Not too much longer and it will be done. It's been a meditation on patience and life. A mending of my spirit.  I'm in the home stretch and it's been a pleasant journey so I think that I will continue to do crazy quilts for awhile and see what happens.