Ya know what sucks? Spam sucks. I have a finite amount of time to spend working on these mystery quilts, and sadly I seem to spend more time dealing with spam comments than I do sewing. Seriously. Argh.

But I am here, and I am sewing. I’m hopeful that I will be able to send the Jelly Roll Mystery to my test sewers by the end of next week. *fingers crossed*

I’ve got it. The perfect project for getting back into the quilting (and mystery quilting) groove. It’s simple enough for uber beginners but interesting enough that it won’t bore more experienced quilters. It’s scrap-friendly and should be fun. I’m starting to press my fabric and all that good stuff tonight.

Yay!

I had a project I wanted to do, the Meta Project, but I just couldn’t seem to get started on it. I knew what I wanted to do, but I just felt really uninspired. All the fabric I picked out to work with wasn’t quite right, and then my quilting space was wrong and, etc. etc. etc. The point is, it wasn’t happening. Not even a little.

In writing when this happens and I find that I am fighting myself to get something done, that means the timing is not right. In the case of a story it means I need some more time to let it stew around in my subconscious before I try to put it onto paper, or if I’m revising it means I need to separate myself from the project for a little while and then come back to it with a fresh perspective. It turns out that in quilting, the same is true.

Now is not the time for me to be working on that project, so I’ve put it on hold and I’m currently drafting a couple others. I say a couple others because I’m apparently totally indecisive right now and I can’t choose which of several ideas I want to full develop into a mystery quilt. Or, more specifically, which one to do first.

I may come to a decision all by myself (like a grown up!) or, I might come to you with several options and do a poll to see what you’d like to do. We’ll see. We’ll see very soon as I’m hoping to have all my rough drafts done tonight.

Heh. New material. I kill me :-p

Though, I really am working on some. A friend of mine recently told me that she was interested in quilting but, sorta didn’t know where to start. So I’m working on a new mystery pattern that is super duper easy, but ought to be pretty awesome once it’s done too. It’s almost like an introduction to strip-piecing.

I’m still in the planning stages, but ought to be ready to start cutting within a week or so (depending on how often my video games distract me).

In the meantime, I’ll keep moving the patterns from the old site over here. Keep watching this space 🙂