My Quilting & Where I Hope It’s Headed in 2007

I’m searching for my niche this year… someplace that feels like a comfortable fit. As I’ve spent time over this last week or so updating my quilting journal, setting up this blog and then answering the questions posed in the “ABC’s of My Quilting Style” meme, it’s given me a chance to pause and reflect on my quilting.

I’ve tried to take some of these thoughts that are swirling and twirling around in my head and put them down on paper and make some sense of it all. A task much more daunting than I think I’m up to. LOL Definitely a project that requires chocolate! Just looking over my list of WIPs and Some Day Quilts made me realize that I have a lot of ideas of my own that I need to persue. (As a side note here: A dear friend and I used to refer to ourselves as “the idea women” during a stint as business partners together–we came up with dozens of ideas for products but didn’t even get half a dozen into production. LOL I will probably never be at a loss for ideas!) I’m having a hard time trying to get my thoughts down in words, though; so I’ve decided for now to just leave it as a vague inclination. I’ll just let the process evolve and unfold.

I want to create and play and experiment like a “mad” scientist in his lab; only instead of chemicals, test tubes and such, I want to create, play and experiment with quilting fabrics, tools and techniques. And I want to put the ideas in my head into motion and onto fabric. I know what I like to see in quilts, and I know what I want to try out in my first “experiment.” I guess that’s good for now.