With Christmas looming I finally got down to the studio to see if making some presents was feasible. Assessing my raw materials resulted in a pile of scraps all over my previously clean table. Turning left-overs into pillows has been on my mind for a while, with no actual action resulting. In the past I made some little pillows for gifts pretty quickly and I thought that I could do that again. However, when confronted with the pile I realized that I didn't have any ideas that could use what I had and still be done easily. That threw me back to square one in terms of Christmas, but as I searched out and sorted my scraps I found some various off-whites calling to me. I envisioned a low key checkerboard as a background for....what? I don't know, but I Iike the essential combination well enough to make it and see where it goes. I am still thinking pillows so I took all the similar fabrics up to the house from the studio and dumped them on the couch. After I took the picture the cat made a nest among them so we have her approval.
It is hard to work through a semi-new process, which this will be. Making the woven quilt block for Dee's Hearts for Charleston quilt (deemallon.wordpress.com) was easier because it was dictated by her parameters, and maybe weaving a checkerboard as I did for her would be the best way to achieve it, but I am still not sure. I am going to make a nine-patch a la Jude (spiritcloth.typepad.com) and let it go where it wants from there. See how I use my blog friends for inspiration and path-finding?