An Idea is Born - QSDS

Isn't this space amazing?!  That's Patty Hawkins getting set up!  Love her

Jean Pierre Lotte, Architect

When I told  Sue Benner that I didn't have an idea of what I wanted to do in my Master Class this week, she laughed.  Now is that good thing or bad?  Me, being Me, I didn't worry too much since I laughed too.  I mean who does that?  Walk into a week long class and not have a clue on what she's going to do?

So with that hanging over my head, I did manage to find some inspiration on my 600+ pinterest abstract inspiration board.  I picked a photo that had caught my idea from the beginning.  Not only was it interesting in itself, but there were lots of little bits of it that were great too.  I downloaded it to my kindle and just took different crops of areas.  Then I played with the crops - either themselves or repeated.  I won't bore you with the details but I did spend 4 hours doing it - grin!

Finally - yes - finally - I found one that I liked, edited it (adding and subtracting) and did value sketches.  Sue asks, "Do you always do several value  sketches?"  uhuh. . . . ."Well, then, you might want to keep it to only three this time and see how that goes?"  (I giggled, getting her point)  You see, looking around the room, everyone else had a ton of fabric out  - me - I was there with my paper and pencils!

Idea found - check!
Editing done - check!
Value sketches  - check!
Full size pattern done - check! (did you know that staples would do that for you for under $15?)
Palette choose - check! (Inspired by a Katie Pasquini Masopust quilt)

Finally, Tuesday morning I could sew!  And sew, and sew!  OMG!  whose idea of was it to make it 60" by 44"????  I really do need to get the concept that more is more does not equate to more fun but just more work!  grin.  But scale does play a piece with this design so that's on its side!!

I decided that if I want to get a major chunk of this done before Sunday, I have to be VERY productive.   Don't you think?