I'm probably the worst blogger. I have a hard time sticking to things. However, in my defense, I have been rather busy.
My husband and I took a vacation to Cancun, where I finished my certification for SCUBA diving. Not surprisingly, I found a lot of inspiration while I was under water! The colors, shapes, animals, patterns... all lend themselves to the creative mind.
Before I left for the trip, I prepped several hexagons to take along to work on by hand. It's going to be a long process, since I will probably only work on that while I'm traveling anywhere. However, I have quite a few "flowers" for Grandma's Flower Garden made, so it's a decent start.
My mom took the Dresden top down to her place for storage until I'm ready to put a backing on it. The batik top is draped over the stair rail in my living room. It looks pretty nice, so I'm going to let it live there for a while.
My friends, Laurel and Nathan, had their baby girl and today I finished laying out the squares for the blanket I'm going to make for them. It's several shades of pink, white, gray and black. I read that babies' eyes find the sharp contrasts first, and though it might get to Lillian after her eyes have adjusted, that was my original plan when choosing the colors. It's very simple. I had a 9 inch square of pink gingham from the curtains my mom made for my bedroom when I was around three, so it's 20 - 9 inch squares. I may or may not put a border on it depending on time and money and how it looks when it's done.
I also found out that my niece is going to have a baby in November and I saw a quilt in a magazine that I thought would make a great blanket for her baby. It's squares within squares, again with the contrasting color idea. For mine, I'm going to use a whole bunch of colors and prints (mostly geometric shapes, but some others as well). When I was a kid, my Grandma Louise made scrap quilts and I was always fascinated by all the different colors and patterns. One of those quilts was used when my niece was a baby for her (and her siblings) to play on. We'd ask, "Find blue." or, "Find a flower." It became a game about learning colors and pictures. I'm going to make it unisex and not too baby-ish, since we don't know what she's having and then it's easier to pass along to the next child. I'm going to use a modified log cabin to make the squares. I have quite a few of the strips cut already, but I discovered I hadn't got any yellow for it. The yellows are in the washing machine as I type. I think I'm going to sash the blocks, but, to be honest, I haven't made up my mind as yet.
I have started work on the Fan Dancer quilt, but I've set it aside for now while I work on these other things.
On top of all of that, I've begun rehearsals for the play, Crimes of the Heart. We're into our fourth week of rehearsals. I also sang in a concert piece written by a friend of mine. It was fantabulous! However, as you can see, I've been quite busy, so I hope you'll forgive the lack of blogs.
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