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Thursday, July 15, 2010

KISS

I am changing this acronym to Keep it Simple, Sewer. I have been driving myself crazy for a long time now. I am scared to say how long. At some point, alright a year ago I saw Amanda Jean's Christmas charm quilt and fell in love with it. I loved the look of the simple square quilt. I ended up buying myself 5 charm packs of Fresh by Deb Strain. I love tulips and all the fabrics are so bright and cheerful. The intention was to make myself a charm square quilt. I think there is a saying for intentions too, isn't there! ;-)





Well instead of making the quilt, I ended up playing around with them. Somehow I gave myself the impression that squares were too simple, that I needed to stretch my wings. I played around with all different ideas and concepts. I thought about pinwheels and so many other possibilities. I even thought of new ones when I attended a quilt show last weekend.

Finally yesterday I decided that it was time to go back to my 1st decision and make the charm square quilt. After I made the decision I decided to read a few blogs and Ashley from Film in the Fridge had just blogged about charm square quilts. It is was Em calls a Godwink. I sat at my sewing machine, and sewed through my first charm pack while watching Lost. I am so happy with it. I should have done it a long time ago.





So far this summer I have not worked on anything I thought I would. I am still in my PHD phase. I have some cute blocks to show you tomorrow.

10 comments:

1 Terry said...

Sometimes simple really is the best way to go! :0)

2 Peggy said...

That is simply charming - pun intended!

3 Lee D said...

I know I catch myself overthinking projects. Simple can be just as beautiful. I too love the tulips

4 allsewnup said...

It's nice to see you went back to your original plan. I"m looking forward to seeing the end result. I love tulips too. I must find this fabric!

Carolyn

5 Nanette Merrill said...

I like it goo. Squares always make me happy.

6 sewfunquilts said...

The fabrics are so outstanding! I love the idea of just letting them shine in the square layout. Great thinking!

7 Michelle said...

I love KISS! And I love patterns that have big blocks of material where you can see the fabric.

It's looking good!

8 Barb said...

Those fabrics are just sooooo fun...and the way you are making it, it will showcase all those fun fabrics.

9 Darlene said...

This type of simple quilt is perfect for the times you just want to sew - just mindlessly putting the charming under your needle.

And, there's nothing like a simple quilt. :-)

10 Darlene said...

BTW, I really like KISS (Keep it Simple Sewer) - perfect!