Blanket of Leaves�

2002-11-13

My fingers have been wanting to sew. Although the weather has been beautiful, outside of the three days of badly needed rain, I'm spending more and more time indoors. I can only spend so much time on the computer and I can't watch television without having something to do with my hands. So I got out the quilt that I started sometime last year. I stopped working on it quite a while ago when I discovered I didn't really like what I'd done so far. But I ripped apart and restarted my last quilt four times before I was happy with it. So I decided that I could probably fix this one, too, if I started working on it again. Besides my fingers really wanted to be doing something.

So I've been working on it for the last week or so and I finally figured out what it was that I didn't like and how to fix it. Fortunately it won'r require taking the whole thing apart. Of course I took the last one apart for reasons of technical ineptitude, not design flaws. It's really hard to make a quilt with no straight lines except those on the borders.

I've named all my quilts. The last one was the 'Wave' quilt. Varying shades of blue in a wavy pattern diagonally from one corner to the other. It took me forever to figure out how to make the waves lay flat. I got it 1/4 done three times before I finally figured it out. I probably could have had the ladies in the quilt stores explain it to me, but the first one I asked looked at me like I was insane so I decided to figure it out on my own.

The one I'm working on now is 'Blanket of Leaves'. The backing is brown, the borders are orange, gold and black. I'm sewing leaves in fall colors all over the backing. I think it's going to look cool, although it will probably take forever to finish.

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