Leaping Off a Creative Cliff

After reading about Rosey's commissioned quilt and admiring the precision of the planning and piecing of the bird appliques I am truly in awe of what can be done with talent, skill, patience and time. Rosey's work is so lovely and it is so opposite my approach that it is amazing that we could even be considered "sisters of the cloth" but since we are both quilters, I guess we are.

I am leaping off a creative cliff in my own slap-dash way and I thought I would show you what happens when someone tries to be "original" without a firm plan in mind. Keepsake Quilting has issued one of their semi-annual Challenges with a very peculiar assortment of fabrics. (Trust me, most of the fabrics you see in this photo are not fabrics of my choosing. LOL I chose the blue water-y print and the print with the tropical fish.)

I was interested in this challenge because applique is not allowed. For years and years and years KQ has had mind-boggling applique pieces walk off with their prizes and since I do not do applique I never entered the KQ Challenge but this time I thought I'd give it a whirl. When I opened the challenge packet and saw their six fabrics I was allowed to use I was very annoyed. But then I told myself that if they sent lovely fabrics that played nicely together it would not be a challenge.

My working title is "Kids These Days Just Don't Know How to Dress Nicely!" and now I am faced with a late March deadline and the challenge of piecing these parts together (remember, absolutely no applique!) and coming up with a border and quilting it. And here I am exposing myself to public humiliation on the WWQP BB if I don't get it done. :-) But perhaps by late March you will have forgotten about this posting.

Judy