So.
You know how I show you something new most Mondays, whether it's a completed quilt, a finsihed tote bag, or a textile art piece? You know how on Wednesdays, I do a Wednesday WIP post and show you what I'm working on, and on Friday I do "Friday Flickr Faves", pictures from Flickr that I find inspiring?
I set it up that way because I wanted to make sure that I had regular posts available for you, the people who are kind enough to pay attention to what I'm doing, and to make sure that they were at least a little interesting.
So last week, after I had spent most of the week working on my journal quilt challenge, making some more blocks for Of Quiet Stars, and doing some work on another big textile art piece I'm working on, I was in my sewing room casting about for ideas for a quilt that I could whip up quickly for Monday's post. I started making a sweet twin sized quilt for a girl in coral pinks and yellows, and realized that though I could race through it quickly, it wasn't really what I wanted to do. So I asked myself, "What do I really want to do?"
Well never ask a navel gazer such a question. It started not a only a whole train of thought - it started a life plan!
I realized that I don't want to continue making quilts that whip up quickly just to have something for a Monday post; I don't want to try 20 different things in a year for the sake of trying stuff or to figure out if that's something that I'd like to do. I know what I like to do and that's what I want to work on.
I want to work on artful quilting.
By that, I don't mean that I only want to work on textile art - I mean that I want each quilt I make to be a piece of art, whether it's meant to hang on your wall or be put on your bed.
I want to make beautiful things: because I can now, because I want to, and because somehow, I need to.
I want to make beautiful things for their own sake.
And that means time. Because it takes time - sometimes a lot of it - to make beautiful things.
Which means that I have to, out of necessity, change how I talk to you. And I want to - talk to you, I mean. I hope that you'll talk to me too - in the comments - about what you're doing, or what you're thinking, or what you've seen and are interested in. Link to your posts if you're a blogger or to your Flickr or other photo sharing site if you don't, tell me what you're interested in!
Cheers,
Kit
You know how I show you something new most Mondays, whether it's a completed quilt, a finsihed tote bag, or a textile art piece? You know how on Wednesdays, I do a Wednesday WIP post and show you what I'm working on, and on Friday I do "Friday Flickr Faves", pictures from Flickr that I find inspiring?
I set it up that way because I wanted to make sure that I had regular posts available for you, the people who are kind enough to pay attention to what I'm doing, and to make sure that they were at least a little interesting.
So last week, after I had spent most of the week working on my journal quilt challenge, making some more blocks for Of Quiet Stars, and doing some work on another big textile art piece I'm working on, I was in my sewing room casting about for ideas for a quilt that I could whip up quickly for Monday's post. I started making a sweet twin sized quilt for a girl in coral pinks and yellows, and realized that though I could race through it quickly, it wasn't really what I wanted to do. So I asked myself, "What do I really want to do?"
Well never ask a navel gazer such a question. It started not a only a whole train of thought - it started a life plan!
I want to work on artful quilting.
By that, I don't mean that I only want to work on textile art - I mean that I want each quilt I make to be a piece of art, whether it's meant to hang on your wall or be put on your bed.
I want to make beautiful things: because I can now, because I want to, and because somehow, I need to.
I want to make beautiful things for their own sake.
And that means time. Because it takes time - sometimes a lot of it - to make beautiful things.
Which means that I have to, out of necessity, change how I talk to you. And I want to - talk to you, I mean. I hope that you'll talk to me too - in the comments - about what you're doing, or what you're thinking, or what you've seen and are interested in. Link to your posts if you're a blogger or to your Flickr or other photo sharing site if you don't, tell me what you're interested in!
As for me, I'm going to have to post more process pics and talk more about the process - and talk about other things as well. I'm not sure what those things will be, but I'm glad you're here to find out with me.
Cheers,
Kit
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