I've been corrupted, but by generosity and sweetness. I used to do one project at a time, and finish it. Now I belong to Yahoo quilting groups and blog, and I constantly see beautiful things, and I think I want to make that, too. I already have about 11 tops that need to be quilted, 9 are priorities, and I have several tops in progress, so what did I do, I started Amy's 2010 BOM, and now I couldn't help myself, I have also begun oh,
Fransson's Paintbox Quilt Along. My Iowa (Carolina) Christmas is at the stage of looking like 5 giant tablerunners, and yet, it is temporarily put aside while I do this week's 8 Paintbox blocks. Yesterday, I drove 50 miles to a quilt shop where they sell Fairy Frost, as I love the shinyness and have been coveting it. I don't think that the love of shiny objects is necessarily a character strength, but what can I do. Most people will be using jelly rolls for their solids, but I got 21 fat quarters, and plan on using them. I am hoping to get all the hopefully coordinating prints from my small stash and scraps, and the second picture is of my first week's choices. The bottom right is light yellow and black, and it matches the light yellow fairy frost perfectly to my eye, but doesn't show up well in the picture. I hesitated to blog about this, as I fear I may tempt others who have been similarly corrupted, but I had to share.
Here is a link to the Flickr group photos:
6 comments:
That looks like a great quilt and I love the fabrics you've chosen for it
Love and hugs Gina xxx
Good Morning Candace, hmmm yes you have corrupted me....LOL....thank you for the links....look forward to seeing your Paintbox quilt blocks...Warm Regards Lyn
Laughing so hard here. I understand completely how much easier it used to be to work on just one thing at a time before the ideas came flying at you from all directions. I can remember wanting to start a new quilt and actually searching through books to find an idea to use. Oh how far away that seems now. I could sew all day every day and never get to the end of my mental list of awesome ideas I saw on other blogs. Not a bad problem to have though in the grand scheme of things. But it does make it impossible to maintain discipline of any sort.
Oh Candace, you have indeed strayed from the path! I'm managing to resist temptation so far, but only just. I'm determined to make at least one thing from each of the books I've bought and to finish everything I start. Who know how long I can resist though. I just love those fabrics. They look similar to some that I found just before Christmas, and such jolly colours. Have fun with them.
Ooooo . . . those are gorgeous fabrics and will make a stupendous Paintbox Quilt.
I journeyed back through your Oh Fransson posts, and have to simply chuckle at your first post here... YES! I too am one that sees projects that others are working on and I jump on the band-wagon with instant inspiration! I HAVE to be "good" and wait a few more projects out before I can really see what fabrics I have for this paintbox. I adore watching your progress though!!!
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