Warmer weather is still with us yeah although I didn’t enjoy it much this weekend as I ended up in hospital on Saturday with a kidney stone of all things. Has anyone ever experienced this? If not I wouldn’t recommend it. It is not a lot of fun! I am still not feeling up to par and may go for a nap before today is over even though I have a lot of things that need to get done. Severe pain seems to drain energy but I guess that makes sense. I am fine now other than still feeling very tired.
Lately I have been reading a lot of books on entrepreneurship, the one I am reading right now is The Power of Starting Something Stupid. How to crush fear, make dreams happen, and live without regret. It is by Richie Norton and I am enjoying reading it. The thing with these books is that they make you think! Now that is not a bad thing, it’s actually a good thing but it does mean that if you want to continue to move forward with your life and your goals you will need to put in the work. Sometimes that work is simply to check in with yourself and start to become aware of your feelings and then once you are aware of them to be honest about what you are feeling and experiencing. If the feelings aren’t positive then to really look at them and figure out why. This may sound easy, but in truth it is actually very challenging. It’s easy to get distracted and not dig deeper than the surface to find out what you are feeling and why you might be having the fear that is stopping you from reaching your goals. I am discovering I have a lot to learn but I am also discovering an inner strength and talent that I knew was there hidden but was always afraid to uncover it. Not sure why and I guess it doesn’t really matter at this point. Anyway that is not the point of this blog so on to quilting.
Last week I finished quilting a quilt for a client. This client likes to quilt in her RV (recreational vehicle). I am not sure how big the RV is but all I can say is way to go! This client has a wonderful eye for colour and her piecing is perfect. My piecing is just alright compared to hers. I am not sure what this pattern is called. It is a simple pattern using 5 inch squares and 2.5 inch strips. The block is the same just rotated to make the stair effect.
The client said just something simple so I kept it simple but I just couldn’t do an allover design on this quilt. An all over design would have looked fine and given some texture but that stair stepped negative space kept calling me to do something different in it.
There was a lot of leaves and nature in the fabric designs used in this quilt so I chose to quilt leaves on a vine in the light green areas using Superior Threads So Fine 50 506 and just a simple petal design in the squares. I repeated the leaf and vine quilting design in the border using Aurifil 50 variegated thread colour 4649.
The quilting doesn’t show up so well in the border as there is a lot of colour happening in the border. I think this turned out well and I personally like the look of it better than if I had chosen an all over quilt design for this quilt. The client seemed to agree so I guess that is all that matters.
Well, onto the next project which is another surprise, this seems to be the year of secret projects.
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