Setting Goals and Designing Quilts
Well the weather here in Victoria BC has continued to be clear and cold and the skating on Panama Flats is still happening. The forecast is for warmer weather soon. We have been lucky here on the south island though as we have managed to escape most of the snow and ice even though it has been cold.
Not a lot has been going on here. I have been working on setting up my own daily planner guide as the ones in the stores just weren’t doing it for me. I thought it might be a more cost effective way of doing it but as it turns out it won’t be however at least it will work for me.
The other thing I have been working on is setting my goals and intentions for 2017. This has proven harder than it would seem as I have had to ask myself the very hard question of what I want to achieve in 2017. Now you would think this would be easy right? What I found was I came up against a deep seated upper limit belief of “who am I to want and achieve success.” Wow! OK so now that I have uncovered this upper limit belief how do I work through it? Has anyone ever had to work through deep seated beliefs that they have uncovered about themselves?
Some of the other things I have been working on this week are designing some quilts in Electric Quilt 7. My first great niece will be born soon and I have been working on the quilt. It is larger than a baby quilt as apparently you don’t use quilts in cribs anymore so I always make the quilts larger so they can be used on the floor when the child is a bit older. My favourite design for this type of quilt is the Sawtooth Star block. This is an image that I have exported from Electric Quilt 7 as the actual quilt is now loaded on the longarm ready for quilting (which I have to start today).
Another quilt I designed yesterday was this one
This quilt was based on the 9-Patch Pizzazz book by Judy Sisneros and some of the fabrics included are these. Aren’t they fun! This quilt should be a lot of fun to make. I used the custom quilt set in Electric Quilt 7 to design this.
The other quilt I am in the process of designing is a double four patch quilt. I started this quilt in the hopes of using up some of my 1.5 and 2.5 inch squares that were building up in my stash. Well I did use some up I still have more to be used.
This is the progress so far I am still trying to decide the border treatment.
I love the way using the different scraps gives so much life to what is essentially a two colour quilt.
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