Just 15 Minutes a Day Keeps the Stress Away

Hello everyone,

To begin I must say I don't know what to do with myself as we have a 70 degree day here in the big apple. So happy mild Monday to you all.

Now on to the goodies. I recall a post about intuition some time ago (December 2010). We were challenged to take a stack of fabric and start with a block, no pattern or anything and just follow your gut. Well, I sorta did that here.

I had a stack of crazy fabrics from my New Orleans visit. So of course it was Mardi Gras madness. The prints wanted to be featured without too much mincing. Smiles. So on Friday I sat down for what started off as 15 minutes to start cutting.... And 45 minutes later this emerged.

A bit gaudy and out there. Yes clearly not rocket science or the works of Michaelangelo. But this represents 45 minutes of playing. Something that I needed and is the inspiration for 15 minutes of play. Thanks Bumblebeans. Smiles

Intuition Collection

I have a handful of small intuition projects that I finished recently... I have really enjoyed seeing all the intuition quilts in progress here and wanted to share. Because each piece is small, that came together quickly and spontaneously... most of my design decisions were based on reaching for the nearest scrap that spoke to me. I really like working on this scale (I've made my biggest quilts ever in the last few months so it's a satisfying contrast) and I think I'll be making more small quilts this year.

Three bookcovers, #1 started it all with the La Virgen panel... she needed clovers for good luck and some extra rays of light. The rays became a star for book cover #2.... and the scraps from both went into the fabric I was making at the time, which (why not?) ended up as cover #3.

This Bloom mini quilt started out with making fabric as well, and I thought it looked like a flower when I put the orange scraps around it. Then it wanted to be in a garden (and orange one!) and have spiky grass (with those triangles on your cutting mat!) and leftover binding stem and some needle-turned leaves. I practiced my free-motion quilting on this as well... which is a much needed start.