Don’t throw out those unused blocks! save em up for a party later on

Bokeh blocks from a Tara Faughnan workshop at play with curved blocks from a Sherri Lynn Wood workshop.

36 x 36 inches // 2022

machine pieced—not yet quilted

linen: leftover scraps from clothes-making + new yardage

I had a lot of left over linen hanging around, waiting to be turned into something, but wasn’t all that inspired by the colors—it’s mostly left over scraps from pants, shirts, and jackets that I’ve made and are all colors I wear (obviously) but not colors I particularly want to work with on a quilt. I pinned them up on my design wall and left them there for a few days.

Then I cut everything up and did some simple improv strip piecing. More cutting and something was still missing… so I bought some jet black and coral red Essex linen to see if larger areas of color would help. It did.

After shifting everything around for a bit I finally found a place where I was no longer actively disliking it. More shifting around and I finally got to YES. So there it stays, at least for now.

In my day job as a book designer, sometimes getting to where everyone can say ‘yes’ to a design can be the hardest part. So when I felt that yes coming on, I knew I could stop.

I may keep this one back and wait for the rainy winter months of the PNW to try some hand quilting.

9/11/22 : This green study is about wildfires. I might continue with other climate catastrophes but don’t have the heart for it at the moment.