This is how projects multiply exponentially

14 July 2010

Is it possible that the Floral Winding Ways quilt top snuck off with the Plaid Streak of Lightning quilt top when my back was turned and reproduced? How else could 2 projects become 7? It defies logic and probably most known laws of the universe. At least this is the way it happens at my house…

I’m asked to teach a class at the LQS. I decide to kill two birds with one stone (probably should have left the bird killing out of the equation) and make a class sample that I can give to my mom as a birthday present. I decide to use floral fabrics. Florals are nice but not really my thing so I have to buy fabric. I create this…

Then I have leftover floral scraps to deal with.

I think back to this project and I remember the boo boo I made with the setting triangles for this Plaid Streak of Lightning and think, “Hmm, these floral scraps would look good with the brown setting triangles I cut wrong. Perhaps with a nice antique-y pink tone-on-tone for the other half of the HST blocks.” Since I have to buy that pink tone-on-tone, I add a few (cough) more floral fabrics to the cart. [Side note: If you followed the link to the post about the boo boo, did you notice that I mention that the Plaid Streak of Lightning also morphed into Bold Streak? Yeah. Projects. Multiplying. Exponentially.]

The lovely floral scraps and the antique-y pink tone-on-tone became these. Oh, how hard I have fallen for these floral HST blocks! I thought I was in love with the Plaid Streak of Lightning. Oh, no. That was just a passing fancy. It’s a good thing I cut enough floral HST for 2 quilt tops. Yet I still have enough floral fabric to get a head start on another project. Hmm.

I dream up this in EQ7…

Sixty pretty floral Dresden plates swirling across a 5-step gradient gray background. Lovely. Sixty different floral fabrics ought to be enough variation, right? Let’s go with 80 just to be sure. I can always use the extra petals in another project… Oh, and the scraps! Enough to make at least 2 more Floral Streak of Lightning quilt tops, I’m sure.

I’m not even going to bother explaining what happened with the plaids. All I did was buy a few plaid shirts at the thrift store. Really. It’s worse than the floral fabrics. I need an intervention.