Confession time…….I am truly a schizophrenic quilter……

I LOVE LOVE LOVE art quilts. But, I LOVE LOVE LOVE traditional quilts too. But mostly those made to look very old. Think repro fabrics… I am not too big on much in between these two extremes.

Weird. I know….

Anyway, I have been away from sewing for quite some time and seem to have lost my creative mojo.  In recent weeks, I have been reading a lot of blogs in an attempt to find some inspiration! I was particularly drawn to the scrap busting sites. I have had several bins of scraps that I have not touched in years. I thought taming them might lead to some inspiration…..I went through three good size bins and using my Marti Michell templates, I cut them into usable sizes and shapes.

Last weekend, I finally started sewing again. Granted these are bits and pieces, no where near finished. But hey, I dusted off the machine! First is a 30s baby quilt sans the borders:

Next I used a charm pack of repro madder prints to make this doll quilt top:

I need to add borders yet to this as well. It feels good to sew again. Now that I have cut up scraps, when I don’t know what to do, I can do some mindless piecing and eventually I will have SOMETHING done!

Until next time…..