Slowly and intermittently, over this long time that I’ve been gardening, I have been pondering (and very occasionally working on) a new project and, at last, the nuts and bolts of it are starting to come together.
This is a smallish double-side quit. The dark blue is a fairly improv sewing together of night-coloured scraps, embellished with running stitch, darning and some buttonhole edged squares to created a patched together and mended look and the lighter side is a collection of vintage doilies hand stitched to an ivory background
And yesterday, since it was pouring with rain and I had an unusual and very welcome time at home alone, I made a similar sized quilt with light brown linen on one side and a grungy blue sort of fabric on the other. For the sake of speed and simplicity, I machine quilted with organic straight lines.
I’m thinking of these as backgrounds to display other sewn items and perhaps story scenes that could enable me to make something like the ABOUT TIME book but with reusable pages…
ABOUT TIME (blogged here) 2018
I really enjoyed making the fabric book and I love the idea of making quilts that do something more dynamic than lying in bed all day but, being so constrained by time, accomplishing that is a hard task. Since starting this blog, I think I’ve made two!
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (blogged here) 2017
EAT, SLEEP, SEW (blogged here) 2013
So the new venture I’m pondering will, I hope, be a sort of hybrid art quilt/book/puppet show. I found a cheap extending curtain rod, which fits in the alcove next the fireplace in the Makery and I’m planning to hang up the backgrounds and attach or hang or somehow or other display other sewings in front of them.
Mrs Hare and Fiona have kindly agreed to relocate their reading group.
Whether this will all work out, of course, is yet to be seen and I wonder if it’s quite sensible to blog about something that might well fail spectacularly but, as Mrs Hare often says, ‘Nothing ventured, nothing gained’.
I hope you you are having a good week :)
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
I can’t wait to see what delights will appear on your “stages”!
I love your blue quilt with the squares and darning, and the doilies are so pretty too!
Fiona looks very happy!
Barbara xx
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Some fab ideas! Hope you find some more sewing time soon!
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With your imagination and creativity it won’t fail. I look forward to seeing your story scenes quilting. Glad you’ve managed to fit in some sewing in between gardening.
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Those little quilts turned out great. I’m pretty sure you are going to put something very creative on them. Fiona and Mrs. Hare seem to be happy keeping each other company in their new spot.
xx, Carol
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