Studio Archeology

Sometimes we are surrounded with so many good things that it's hard to remember and appreciate them all.

Case in point: my studio has become so full of fabric and resource material that it's often hard to find a place to work or to remember all the things I'm currently working on.

I got in there again this weekend and started an archeological dig down through the layers of fabric waiting to be put away, magazines open to an inspirational page and projects (some almost finished, some only just started and some still waiting for the glimmer of my eye and a moment in time when they can take their first step into being.)

One of the projects I unearthed was one of the first I ever started, more than 20 years ago. I had decided to make a calendar quilt, with a block representing each month while simultaneously moving through the colour wheel. I had completed an appliquéd basket of flowers for May, a wedding ring block for June, a Snail's Trail for July, a variation of Birds in the Air for August and a schoolhouse block for September... and then, for some reason, I never got back to it... for 20 years!

On Saturday, I pulled out some fall fabric, ironed a few pieces onto fusible backing and fussy cut some leaves for an October wreath.

On Sunday, I gathered some plummy purples and one red with small figures for my November block, and made a modified Rail Fence block which I have decided to call "Flanders Field".

I have also gathered some of the few purples I have in my fabric stash and photocopied the necessary foundation patterns to make a paper-pieced block for December. Stay tuned for updates! :)