Back to Reality

It has taken a few days for me to get back into any sort of routine, both at work and at home.  As much as I'd love to keep playing with my triangles, I have to get my head down and work on customer quilts and projects with deadlines.  I'm so close to having these liberated stars all sewn up, and when the last few blocks are pieced, I can get one top together as it needs to get to a fund raiser. Just a few more to go.

I am still facilitating the JT2 project, and yet, I haven't been keeping up.  I promised myself I'd have one more block made for our Sat meeting, and fortunately, this block was almost finished.  Now it is. If you were at the show, you will understand the cheddar, I just couldn't resist.

I've also got bags of these and I've been determined to learn how to string piece without paper or foundation. Thanks to Gwen, I'm off and running.  I had to make a few test pieces when I got home so here is the start of String Stars.  I will take my time with this and it will be a project that will probably take several years to complete.  I'm totally ok with that, I'm trying to enjoy the process rather than push through the project.

It's a start.

Here are a few of Gwen's pieces that really sung to me.  I've seen them in her books, but to see them up close, to touch them and run your fingertips over her hand quilting, well, they are truly works of art.

Look at her amazing sense of color, the stitching compliments the piecing,

simply wonderful. 

I only hope mine turns out half as good as hers.

Now to find some time to enjoy the process on this piece.

I hope you all have time to stitch this weekend.
Sharon