Scenes from a Sewing Room

This past weekend was an exploration in creativity thanks to extreme procrastination. I didn't want to organize my paperwork to do taxes (because I have to pay in this year), so I played with fabric instead!

Friday night, my creative muse overtook me and had me rethinking my batiks quilt. The tree, that I wasn't convinced I liked, apparently did not belong because the fusible web lifted off in most places. It was practically falling off! So I got rid of it and replaced it with this:

The idea came from this book that I bought myself for Christmas:

I think it was supposed to represent a dahlia, but I spaced mine out a little more and made it more mandala like. 

There's still a lot of space in the center of this quilt...I don't know if I like or if I should add more rounds to the mandala. And the fabric flowers don't really work with it now, so maybe I'll make a couple of matching throw pills and add them to that.

And I don't know what I'm going to back it with, either.  It'll come to me.  It's only taken 8 months for me to figure out what I wanted for the center...I'm sure it won't take long for me to figure out the backing! :^)

Now I wish I was staying home to play with this, rather than heading off to work!  Blah - no creativity there! But, hi ho hi ho...

Maine Quilts 2010

Two more days till one of my favorite summer events – the Pine Tree Quilters Guild’s Maine Quilts 2010!  This is my 5th year attending and I always come home with a million new ideas and inspirations. 

This year, I’m looking for woven quilts (my newest fascination).  I stumbled upon the book “Simply Stunning Woven Quilts” by Anna Faustino and was awestruck by how innovative those quilts looked.  I found a tutorial online (which looks really easy); I just haven’t taken a moment to try it.  Well, that and the fact that I still don’t have a sewing room that isn’t full of boxes yet (hopefully this weekend will put an end to that, because I REALLY need kitchen and bathroom curtains…especially bathroom curtains – I’m convinced that the neighbors down the road can see into my bathroom!). 

Here are just a few of my favorite pictures from the past four “Maine Quilts” shows:

 

For more pictures from the last 4 years, click below:

2006

2007

2008

2009