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Anatomy of a Lost Ships Quilt, Part 1:     Great Expectations

5/16/2013

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Part 1 in a series of 4
PictureThe tedium of basting makes Nellie sleepy!
After a long interval of obsessive knitting, I'm finally quilting (and blogging) again!

​At first, my return to quilting did not go well. With two appealing projects -- a large bed quilt to be finished and a baby quilt to be started -- I found myself in a paralysis of indecision. I just couldn't settle on quilting motifs for the big quilt, or fabrics for the little one. So frustrating! 

Eventually,  I realized that I'd come to think of these projects as "The Masterpiece" and "The Heirloom." Phew! How do you spell S-T-R-E-S-S ? The solution became obvious. I needed to find a low-pressure project, something I could just play around with ... at least until I could tone down the melodrama of my overblown expectations.  

So I headed to my mysteriously abundant hoard of ugly fabric. What's better for low-pressure messing around than ugly fabric? I mean, you can't really ruin it, can you?  I pulled out a big chunk of brown floral. (Yeah, I collect those.)

You know this fabric.  I blogged about it previously here. The time had come to reveal the latent beauty in this hideous ... er ... challenging print.  

Coming next:  Over the rainbow.

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