.....never a bride.

The third time I've thrown my hat into the ring, and the third time I didn't win. *cue the "whah, whah, whah" music*


I'm happy (?) to announce that  Off to Oz - my entry in the Generation Q Magazine's Scrap Splat Challenge, placed second. Congrats to Flaun Cline on her win. (Her quilt really is quite lovely.)

But, can I just say: "AGAIN with the second place?"  Perhaps one day I'll do a 27 Dresses type thing about all of my failed quilts.

Or maybe I'll just stop entering contests!  *heh*

Talk soon!

and The Bloggers' Quilt Festival!  I'm Kit Lang, a developing fiber artist, in Toronto, Canada, and I'm glad to have you here!

Thank you to Amy at Amy's Creative Side for hosting this festival, and thanks to all the lovely sponsors who help to support it!











 

Hi all, hope you had a great weekend.

I had a working weekend, trying to complete some upcoming challenges due in the next couple of weeks, some things on my "to do" list,  and holy cow - The Bloggers Quilt Festival is in TWO WEEKS. 




(And I don't have my quilt done for it yet.  But I'm not panicking, nooooooooooooooooooo. )

Well it wasn't. (Big cheesy grin.)

See, the more I worked on the placement, the more I realized that it just wasn't working.  Stumped, I asked BSP for an opinion and what I got was "I don't get it."  *heh*

So then I explained - "Juxtaposition of angles and curves!" -  "Life arising from/despite the darkness!" - "A conversation about the tension created by  man vs. nature!"  "assorted other asshattery!"

BSP said "Yeah, yeah I get that. Those intellectual ideas make sense. But that's not what's coming through on your quilt.  It just looks like a bunch of flowers you stuck on a a black background.

I sputtered while BSP circled my design wall.

"But that black all broken up with the green - now that's cool.You should make a quilt with just that stuff on it."


BSP wisely left and I stared at the pieces on my design wall, and looked at my photographs, pondered my sketches and pondered and puzzed 'till my puzzler nearly broke (to mis-quote Dr. Seuss); and realized BSP was right.


Don't you hate it when your spouse is right? DAG-NAB-IT!!!!!!  ;)

Anyway...

I took out the damn flowers and pieced together my black velvet and green satin bits, and pondered the nature of mental health/mental break downs, what living in our fast-paced, compartmentalized lives does to our souls, why it is that self styled "non-artistic" spouses are so damn opinonated and why it is that when they're right, it's so damn annoying?


And by the time I was done thinking about all of that, I had finished my latest wall quilt.

The fun thing is, the entire quilt is made completely out of scraps - even the batting is scraps pieced together. I don't think these pics don't do it justice, cuz you can't feel how luscious and cuddly all that black velvet is, nor really see the quilting angles working against each other. But it's really lovely.*



* As is my much Beloved Spouse.

I think one of my very first posts on my blog was about my very first quilt, which I called "The Green One" not having been able to come up with a more clever name.  That quilt was made out of all the scraps of all the light green fabrics I had saved over the course of 30 years of sewing, all with the idea that I would "make a quilt someday"

This is one of the (many) projects I've had on the go recently, finished and ready to show you.

This quilt goes back to my "roots" so to speak - long time readers will recognize some recurring themes: circles and monochromatic and/or limited palettes).

(Thanks to Beth from Maine for the name)

So, those of you who have been with me for awhile were probably wondering what the heck I was up to with this little quilt  - I mean, I've been known to do a baby quilt on occasion - but usually they're more... "adult"; and pink and white? What's up with that?

I actually finished a quilt, can you believe it?

I actually finished a quilt, can you believe it?


I barely can!  :)  If you remember this top from several (or more) months ago, then you may be thinking, "Hey! Wasn't that a lot bigger before?" (I mean, a LOT bigger?) And you'd be right.


*cough*

Ta da!!!