Late November
This graphpic is a possible title page for the book and obviously displays one of the quilts I hope to make.
As I woke this morning, I was mentally rearranging the furniture in my great room, but I had also reverted to watercolor painting. Thank goodness, the Simply Quilt’s program had two lively fabric artists on the show. Strip piecing 2” strips into larger sections of “new fabric,” or crazy quilting conglomerates of odd pieces to make larger chunks of fabric, are both skillful strategies to imbue depth and variety.
I’ve got to purchase the SAD light soon, so I’ll be able to sew through the dark of the year. I don’t want to miss Christmas. I mustn’t miss visiting with Matt, Sarah and Sheila, but I’m also looking forward to working on the wonderful quilts that are blooming in my head. I may just have to put off the writing projects again. I know how I waffle back and forth between all my mediums; writing, watercolor and fabric. Nevertheless, I hear my small inner voice saying all I really want to do is make color filled quilts and keep up my blog. That’s all !
So how do I let my writer friends down ? So many of them really do multi task. I guess I only had one book in me. I’ve known for some time that I could spend the rest of my life illustrating the Wishwood. I truly believe that wildly colorful fabrics capture the magic of the Dragon Isles. “The Tree of Life” is the first of many quilted compositions to spring from this magical place.
By the way dear friends, I just received an offer on the other house. If all goes well it will close right after Christmas, so it will be all tied up by the end of the year. Thank goodness.
Speaking of “Goodness”, He once told me that the book would be published, “When it’s finished.” I keep asking Him if it’s finished after I complete another series of illustrations or a complete writing revision. A professional quilting magazine said that one should have ten quilts before approaching a gallery . . . purhaps the same will be true of publishers.
The Dragon Isles. I’ve a life time of illustrations to translate into fabric.
