After seven workshop weeks with Nancy Crow, I feel better about design & composition, color choices and piecing skills. Fine and good if I were only making quilt tops, but developmentally lopsided. What if I made a masterpiece today? Unlikely though that may be. I'd be totally stymied by underdeveloped techniques, a plethora of choices and a lack of confidence.
I'm working on this lopsidedness. First: the sandwiches. Then choices: thread, quilting lines, and fmq. Where to start? Which sandwich first? Daunting challenges!
Focus and choose. I'm starting with the very first quilt top I ever made – the one that catapulted me into this quilting adventure three years ago. It's the largest one dimensionally of the six sandwiches. No heavy quilting at least. It'd be a lap quilt. But thread? Quilting lines? Walking foot or free motion? Just choose. Let go of perfectionism. Wabi-sabi. I'm making my way toward deeper waters.
Another thing to practice, practice, and practice! What do you have to lose? Just do it. I have found the thread choice to be very specific to what your machine likes- and not necessarily your choice. I don't feel like struggling with the tension right now.
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Grasshopper - the hardest part of a thousand stitch journey is the first stitch.... Practice for a few minutes on a junk piece until you get a rhythm going. and... stop procrastinating!!! A
ReplyDeleteI am the greatest procrastinator in the planet, but I agree with Annette, once you do a few stitches the work starts to flow.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment my house excuse suits me fine and I even believe it is not procrastination... : - )
go for it girl!!
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Ana
We often put obstacles in our own way. It doesn't have to be perfect--the journey of quilting is trying out different threads, different types of quilting, and learning each time.
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