bit more process, intuition

 Some of you may recall this quilt from way back... 

This was from our SCRAP BAG SWAP.

My partner was BONNIE, and she sent me this lovely 

collection of fabrics of oranges and yellows, greens and purples...

(this is a great challenge for your self... 

try taking a Bunch of blindly grabbed scraps and using them 

all up in an abstract quilt top)

This quilt has taken on many transformations...

what started out as a little play on geese, quickly turned into, 

how can I use EVERY SINGLE PIECE SHE SENT ME...

 I worked very quickly trying to keep it abstract, 

and often using pieces as she sent them to me...
(meaning I didn't even cut them into any other shapes)

Like that Yellow on the far right in a sort of triangle shape..

I had to figure out how I could stitch that together without cutting it...

Good Y seam practice for sure...

The outer border was the only place where I added some of my own fabrics... 

the neutral tans was added by me, because I decided I did want the 

light space all around it to make the abstract design pop out..

I then also add the DARK GREEN strip at the bottom right,

to just PULL YOUR eye down to the bottom edge of the quilt.

 I tried at one point to add in a vintage block that I had laying around 

with some same colors

But didn't  see the point to it... so out it came

I am not one to use WHITE, so the fact that she through in some black and white prints,

and the ORANGE with white, became my biggest challenge...

I think the rest of the LIGHTS helped balance that big chunk in the middle... 

other wise it flattened the whole image...

I basted it months ago, hoping to have this done by now...

then hoped to do it over xmas break... I did start to quilt it...

 Hated it, and it looked sloppy, so now I sit with my seam ripper ripping that out...

 I walked by it today, and thought, I know what I will do! 

(even though I had ten other things planned for today)

I found my yellow marking pencil, drew one wavy line across it...

And  away I went...

I am going to do that whole quilt following that one line...

Putzy walking foot sewing, but it gives great texture and 

will allow the abstract to just be what it is...

(it's also boring, so, I had my break, I better get back to it! ;-)