WIP Wednesday

How is it already Wednesday again?  Some weeks I think it takes forever to get here and other weeks it seems impossible that it is here already.  I took a little break from my complications quilt this week.  As much as I love that quilt and everything I am learning from it I just wasn't in the right head space this week to push through and invest what it takes.

I started working on Color Therapy instead.  Talk about intense.  That quilt is so many things all at once.  Right now I have put the breaks on it.  Maybe I will pick it back up but maybe not.  You can read more about it here.

I gave away my Central Rails quilt for Christmas to a friend who mentioned several times how much she liked it and who I knew was really wanting a quilt.  She is going through a divorce and I really wanted to give her something special that would be like a hug everyday in her new space.  Unfortunately for me that meant giving away one of my favorite quilts.  I love Central Rails because it is the one quilt I have finished as part of the Old Red Barn Quilt Along group.  I don't think in the time I have been quilting I have ever made a quilt more than once.  But I really wanted to remake this one so I started a new version with a Lucy's Crab Shack Jellyroll.  I made my Central Rails quilt with 2 jelly rolls to get the size I wanted so I need to order another one before I can finish this quilt but I am excited about having this quilt back in my life soon.

Be sure to head over to Lee's and see what everyone else is up to this week.

Color Therapy

I don't usually get overly personal here-I like to keep it light and stick to the quilting.  I tend to think that as people part of our job is to help the people in our lives become better people because of that sometimes we hurt the ones we love and sometimes they hurt us.  Hopefully we come out the other side better for it.  I've been going through what feels a little bit like a bad breakup with a good friend but through it I am trying to find the positive and come out better on the other side. 


I don't know where I want to go in my quilting journey.  It's undefined for me and I'm okay with that.  So many times I've been asked well what do you want.  What is your goal?  Do we have to always have a goal?  I didn't get to go to Quiltcon but I did get to watch some of the lectures on Craftsy.  If you haven't checked them out yet be sure you do-there is some great information in there.  Jacquie who's blog I have read for a long time now said "Make what you love and love what you make."  That seems like such a simple statement but if you take a minute and really think about it it's not that simple.  We spend so much of our time and energy trying to please others.  I do typically like the quilts I make but I don't LOVE all of them. 

I decided to throw it all out there for once.  I made nothing in my sewing room off limits and I just went for it.  I started with this photo from my pintrest board because I thought it would make an amazing quilt.  It has awesome lines and colors and I thought I could do that in fabric and really love something.

In the process I was healing.  I was erasing the doubts I had allowed into my head that I wasn't good enough to be a part of this community.  That I wasn't creative enough to have any impact.  I'm still not sure what role I want to play.  I have no big plans to become a fabric designer, write or book, or even release my own patterns.  But I do plan to continue to make friends here, share what I make, and at the end of the day make what I love and love what I make.

All that through starting a new quilt.  I'm sure I will continue to learn and that as I figure out more about myself things will change along the way.  Just like this color therapy quilt.  At block one I was in love.  Thought it was going to be amazing.  Here I am three blocks in and I hate it.  Funny how that works out sometimes.  But the important thing for me in this one is that I tried something new.  I went out of my normal box.  I can't say at this moment if Color Therapy will ever evolve into a finished quilt but I'm thankful that I took a chance.