Moving On

So now the birthday bash is over and as the dust settles, we have to move on. Though, if you did not get the freebies I posted last week, you can still get them in the store, only now they are not free.

This weekend I have been working on my art quilt. Its not that I don’t have anything else to do, cause I do – a LOT to do. But, I just needed to relax and chill for a bit. So I decided to work on an on going project that has been in the back of my mind for a while. This is one of those projects that spend more time in your brain than on the sewing table.

I started this art quilt while on retreat where I had access to large tables to try the shapes out. I literally just cut out shapes and then threw them onto the background to see how they would go. I would rearrange, then add, then move and so on and so on. Once I got the big pieces on it was just a matter of figuring out what else to do with the quilt. Then I was able to start sewing and quilting on it a little at a time once I got home from the retreat. I have spent only three days on this so far – three days one day at a time here and there. But I really like how it is coming along. I only need to do a little bit more background quilting and it will be done. EXCEPT I am not too sure of the upper left corner – the one with the three strips coming down ending in flowers – Oh and I am not too sure about those flowers. I may be going back and adding some bodies to those and making them into butterflies.

so what do you think? should those strips go? I am debating just taking the tulle off that is under and around them and perhaps that would be enough. Of course, if I wanted I could just cut that part out and not even worry about seam ripping and then add another piece to fill in the hole and no one would know – LOL

Here is a close up of some of the stitching