Do you ever have a chat with yourself that goes something like this? "Now, Jen, you only have a small amount of time before the deadline. You have to do less (insert activity here) than usual if you are going to finish in time. Alright?" And then once you get started, that chat goes completely out the window? It seems to happen to me all the time.
I really wanted to enter a call for SAQA for "Joining Threads". It was to create a diptych of two related concepts and make two small (less than 12 inches square) art quilts of them. As you know, I love bees, and thought a pair of quilts depicting what the world might look like if the bees disappeared might be interesting. I came up with the following.
But as usual, once I started quilting these quilts, I couldn't stop myself. I just kept adding more and more thread. SO many starts and stops and thread changes. It is somewhat comical. I think the only thing consistent about my "style" at the moment is heavy quilting. lol
Because I couldn't hold myself back, I ended up quilting straight through the deadline for the call. Ah well! That is ok.
I finished them up and had the thought that I would like them better in a different size. I think they would look better in maybe 12 x 18 portrait configuration. Since I used my Cricut to cut out all the bees and flowers, I could make another set. Do I want to? Decisions. I have several other calls I want to work on (this time with plenty of time before the deadlines! Ha!) so it may have to wait a little while.
Jen
