If You Want to Try Something New .... Here's a Book For You

Milli obviously had fun with her Herky Jerky tree project and I'd like to suggest another book that offered some "fun" ideas for me. Dianne S. Hire has written "Quilters Playtime: Games With Fabrics" and you can indeed play games (like Tic Tac Toe) with her ideas and your fabrics. Her ideas enable you to "loosen up" and try new things without huge investments of time and fabric ... you go stash diving and you play and you let your creative juices "flow" as the saying goes.

This particular wallhanging was created for an international competition and sent off to Bunbury, Australia. Those naughty Australians had sent me a packet of four very calm tiny black and white prints (not my kind of fabrics at all!!) and I've forgotten what their theme was ... but I called this "Shattered Trellis" and they hung it in their show anyway. :-) Their judge's note complimented my quilting which I made rather dense so the colored parts would "pop". And yes, the edges of this wallhanging are crooked and the blocks deliberately don't match up properly. That was part of Dianne's "playtime" idea in her book ..... take the attitude of an enthusiastic child and PLAY with your fabric pieces, within reason of course, because you do want to wind up with a finished product. LOL

Judy