Bird Quilt

We have a bird bed. A pocked pewter iron bed with bird finials up the wazoo. I love my bed. I bought it ages ago. It has bird bedding too. It's very birdy. The funny thing is I'm not a fan of live birds. I like a tasty roast chicken, but those feathery things flying up in the air? Not so much. I live in NYC and we've got all kinds of pigeons. Don't like the pigeons. Yes, they are actually quite beautiful (in a rat that flies kind of way) but they are just filthy and they poop on you every opportunity they get. Yuck to pigeons.

Sooooo, I'm making a bird quilt for the bird bed. I started it in a quilt as you go class last summer. With much time off, it is almost done! I'm just sashing and sewing it all together. Another couple of weeks and it will be added to the bird collection...

This is a quilt I feel is a little muddy... Too many types of fabrics, not much cohesion. It's not modern or traditional... A little of both but not enough of either. But it is what it is. And we're gonna use it.

Supernova

So I'm working on a supernova from a blog... Can't remember her name at the moment but will give full credit & the link as soon as I do! I know I have 4 other projects in the works but I jus had to start this one before I lost my mojo. I actually wanted to make this top so I could use some new fabrics but I ended up using some other new fabrics... Stuff I bought at Quiltcon and some other stuff I already had. I decided I really didn't want to use greens (my go to color). It was a real struggle to not go there! I went with orange & gray instead. Hope it pops. We'll see on this one. Still need to make a bunch of blocks before it comes together.

First post

Ok, so here I go into the blogosphere... Typos, grammatical errors and incomplete thoughts et al.

I am a quilter. It is what I like to do best. I like to cook and bike and hang out with my guy and our pets too, but I really like to quilt.

Like all quilters, I love fabric. We are all a bit obsessive when it comes to fabric. I'm not as discerning as I should be. I have too much green & not enough neutral. I know I'm not alone on that one! I tend to muddle my designs up with too much stuff... Too many styles, too many palettes, too many ideas. But I'm working on that. And would appreciate any input on how to control such impulses! I like too may things but crave simplicity. I want my quilts to look like Denyse Schmidt's but they don't. Not sure what they look like... They are all over the place. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to practice mindfulness and hope I can stay focused. I've got three big projects in the works and I will post my progress and welcome any feedback.