Today I find myself with my mind birling with ideas.
Creative juices a bubbling and a spiraling.
I have a need to design.
So I have all of this out designing a special quilt; my 'Teawagon Quilt' inspired by the lovely Jane of teawagon tales who sells the most lovely vintage fabric (oh and Jane is very cool too, she loves Morrissey, what can I say?). All of the fabric for this quilt is from her shop so hence the name. I have been quietly foraging pieces away in my stash for a while now. Once I have enough I'll get going as it will be sewn on my machine and therefore won't take long (I have been sewing the below by hand for months and months so anything by machine seems easy and lightening speed) but...
The ridiculous thing is that I already have three other blankets on the go, two of which are stumbling in the main due to finances. This granny all-square from The Royal Sisters blog which is shown here as part of the 52mmmc...
which, even though I have a hundred plus pile of, I need a lot more wool to complete it and then there's this...
of which the top is pretty much finished but I still need to add some more white hex's to square off. This involves counting up all the spaces and working out how many half hex's I need too. There's two thousand paper pieced hexagons on this bugger already but I need some more calico to make more hex's which means money. Oh and the batting but luckily I have an ancient (well it used to be on my bed when I was wee) candy stripe flannel sheet for the backing. This 2.3 x 1.1m quilt top has been a real labour of love and I could have carried on and on, I loved it so much!!
I'm thinking of opening a wee Folksy and/or Etsy shop to (hopefully) make a few pennies to help??? Scottie dog/apple brooches anyone??
I have also started a knitted patchwork blanket from my wool stash...
You know, something for the evenings!
It doesn't seem to matter how many WIPs I have on the go (just about to start this too???) I cannot stop the need to be creative about the NEXT project. I don't always have to start this next project straight away and I like to have a few things on the go; a bit of crochet, a bit of knitting, a bit of sewing, as I like to be able to move around depending on my mood but when a new idea strikes or there are rumblings of an idea taking seed I MUST heed it and sit down, pencil and paper in hand and design.
Hands up who else?
I see you there, get that hand up!
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