I'm so glad I found this thread and met you!! What a great way to use my time on FR instead of griping and posting "me too" comments on political topics. Yay!!
Laughing with you and being just as glad that you found the thread and can get excited about being creative.
Planning and dreaming up new things have always excited me.
Mary and I made quilts for a lady, in exchange for her scraps, it gave us scraps that we couldn’t afford to buy and she made all her fair sized family’s clothing so I am talking about a lot of left over material, we made quilts for each of her children.
One night, I had picked up the years scraps and we had a feast going through it and planning designs.
Mary would run to her machine and sew up the square as quick as a wink.
We liked to work with a 4 1/2” block and 2 triangles that when joined, fit the square........LOL, have you any idea how many patterns you can dream up with those basic shapes.
I told Mary exactly what I thought she should sew, kinda drew it out, [10th or so block we had tried out] and she rushed in and sewed it wrong.
LOL, we made the quilt using her ‘wrong pattern’, called it the Mary Kathleen pattern and made others.
I am still attempting to figure out what the brain storm I had was, it was one of those bright flashes of inspiration, that didn’t hang around.
When I opened my shop, one of the ranchers wives stopped in and liked the quilts, so she sent her husband to take a look.
He liked the ones made from wool pants and skirts, from Goodwill, in large squares, tied, and I had used old blankets in them, he bought them for the bunk house.
The wife never did get her pretty quilt.
I call them quilts, others call them tied comforters, as we did not sew them by hand for quilting design, but we did use the same quilt patterns as a hand sewn quilt.
I am burned out on terror and politics, also, but must keep on with the terror, as it is going to smack us up side of the head and hard, and so many think it is over.