Quilty Thursday
A few weeks ago I realized that I’ve made so many excuses to do something other than quilt.
Oh, I gave my fabric away… (I did, bags and bags of it! but I still have my favorites stored in containers!)
I gotta finish up the sewing space before I pull out the BabyLock quilting machine……
I have company coming, I should make curtains….paint a room…refinish furniture….
In reality, I was making up all my excuses to cover up that I lost my quilty mojo. (Not for the first time!)
I went to Garrison ND a few weeks ago. This little village has TWO quilt shops. Well, I had to go check them out. Even though I wasn’t going to buy anything. (Because one of the many excuses I listed above!) One was closed. And as I strolled through the second one I didn’t really see anything I wanted.
Until I was walking out the door and there was a display of Moda Charm packs.
Gotta say, when I first started quilting I bought a lot of charm packs but in the last few years I do not buy anything smaller than a fat quarter. But these really caught my eye. Solid colors. And such a selection.
Suddenly my quilty mojo was back! And I really wanted to buy fabric, design a new quilt for that fabric, cut up fabric into little bits, and stitch it back together.
I bought one of each!
And now I’m working on designing a new quilt pattern. I have fabric spread across the table. And the background fabric is ordered.
This will be an easy quilt. Something I can put together quickly. And enjoy.
Okay, it’s not really a new design. I’m taking the Baby Rock Star 2 pattern I created a few years ago and changing it up a bit.
This is the layout for Baby Rock Star 2. The new design will be larger than 2″ for each block.
Another Baby Rock Star 2 that I made for my new grandson.
I like this design a lot!
Since I’m back to quilting, I’m also returning to Quilty Thursday posts to reflect that part of my creative life. All of my other crafty endeavors will be on Tuesdays.
I’ll be getting my Babylock back out next week! I’d do it sooner but I’m having a wee vacation with the grandkids. It’s our yearly “Grammy Camp”. There will probably be pics next week!
I hope the Babylock still works and isn’t upset with me about being in storage for 4 months!
I can totally relate to your losing your sewing mojo. I go through spells and can’t seem to get myself into my sewing room at times and then I start again and sew and quilt for hours and hours each day. Right now I can’t get myself into my sewing room again. I did sew for about one hour the other day and stopped again. Maybe I’m working myself up to it.
Glad to hear that other sewists run into the sewing block! I find so many other things to do than sew. But the BabyLock is out on the dining room table. Found most of my sewing tools. Now to get me in there and stitch! But first I need to…….
Oh I can “sew” relate. It does come and go, I had to work so hard on getting both graduation quilts and a wedding quilt finished in time this spring. I do have a quilt I’m working on for just me, but I think I just pushed so hard that right now I work for an hour and then stop. I know the mojo will return, but for right now I’m onto other things.
Yes! I had a lot of projects to get done before we moved and I really pushed to finish them. Then the packing, the moving, the unpacking. Just got my quilting machine out. Now I need to make some time to get to work on this new quilt!