I'm almost late in posting Step 3 because Step 4 is right around the corner. Now we have to deal with my choices which is where I went down the rabbit hole just like Alice.
The directions were color. I'm not afraid of color. No problem. But first I thought I should contain my last round with some black. Done. Then, I thought I would make some very bright wonky log cabin rectangles for the next row. But I made them too big and they looked odd.
So, I decided to add very large orange chevron fabric (ala Gwen and Freddie except they usually add smaller black and white chevrons... ) Yep, I went for large, very large, orange chevrons:
Hmmmm, not sure whether I'll keep the chevrons or ripppppp it off and try something else. Maybe if a few pickup sticks went through the chevrons it would work. What do you think? Stay or go?
I do think I met the color requirement for this round...just saying.
I so enjoy seeing what everyone else is creating!
To be honest, I don't have much in the way of crumbs. I have alot of strips of various widths and some odds and ends, but little pieces of fabric don't stay in my sewing room. I donate them to be stuffing for cat beds. I'm serious. I'm not making it up! One of the members of the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild is a volunteer at a no-kill shelter for stray cats. Each new owner of a cat gets a bed. My crumbs go to her initially and then ultimately to a new cat owner.
So, as I contemplated what I would do for Step 2, I went to strips. I started out with a bunch of strips and left over cuts from other projects and made this:
I cut the new fabric up into 4 strips to add to my center block.
After I added the borders, I noticed how the red pick-up sticks shifted the focus of the center block to the right. Which caused me to want to continue that concept in the new border, so I retro-fit a grey pick-up stick into the new border. I wish I would have known I was going to do this before I sewed on the borders - it would have been so much easier to do at that stage.
I may add a grey pick-up stick in the top border, but I'm going to study this for awhile. At least it won't involve another corner retro-fit!
I don't think my strips have resulted in a very liberated step 2 as compared to what others are doing, but I am satisfied with my composition and most importantly, I'm enjoying the process.
I look forward to seeing all the other step 2 posts.
Hi everyone,
I'm Kathleen, living in Los Altos, California (on the peninsula in No.Cal, south of San Francisco and north of San Jose).
This looks like a fun experience and I look forward to learning alot in the creative process.
Not really knowing what I am doing, I took a block from my reject pile, and tried to liberate it. Unfortunately, as you will see, the structural problem with this block (failure to make beautiful points on the center diamond) continues with this exercise (humbling as it is, I decided to keep it).
I started with this:
I took the first cut:
Then got in the spirit and added more "pick up sticks":
This is my end result for my center block:
Having looked at some of the other blocks, I realize that I should have considered cutting the block up and rearranging, rather than just cutting up and adding my "pick up sticks". Or I could have put the block back together in a little less precise manner.
That being said, I am growing to like this block and hope that I will be able to add other elements as we progress through the rounds. And learn from the entire experience...
I look forward to sharing in your creative process as well as learning from each of you. Please feel free to access my blog at: http://www.californiadoodlesanddesigns.blogspot.com and join as a follower. I would so appreciate it!
I almost forgot, my log on name is "Cakath". Look forward to sharing with each of you.
