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Grandma & Shadrach FPP (pattern drafting)

2/26/2023

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I wonder if I can design my own Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP)?  (Of course I can.)  I wonder if the cracked ice research I did may help?  (Why the heck not!) 

When my mom and I left East Africa, we went to Liberia, in West Africa, to visit the family of our stateside Liberian friend.  We took a lot of pictures of people there, to bring back to our friend who hadn't seen his family in years.  This photo, of Grandma with her grandson Shadrach, is lovely.  I decide to use my compass method to see if I can cracked-ice it into FFP slices. 
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Gustav's Jewel Box - my blank verse quilt in progress

1/5/2023

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Some quilts -- like my Memories of Africa Quilt or my Dandelion quilt -- start with a plan.  I sit down and draw an idea, pick my fabrics, and work my way toward a fore-visioned end.  I love working like that, because I can bring an idea into reality!  But those quilts tend to be thinky quilts, and sometimes I don't have the reserves to think my way through my hobby.  Lately, I've been getting home from work at 6:30pm, and it's dark, and I have just enough space in my brain for a little Foundation Paper Piecing... before I feel my focus slip, like a car falling out of gear.  I get maybe a half-hour of concentration, and then I find myself picking the wrong fabric for the pattern and having to rip seams, or just staring at the same piece for a while doing nothing.  I desire to be creative, but sewing to a plan leads to frustration. 

That's why I like to have a second project at the same time, a non-thinky project.  The Acid Trip, Scrappy Double Wedding Ring, and today's featured project are all examples of what I think of as "blank verse" projects. 

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