Defining Moments catalog cover
Finally I have finished the dreaded replacement queen bed quilt and it’s off to be stitched.
So for my next creative endeavor, I am designing the catalog for Defining Moments, the joint project of Marion Coleman and I. Our first exhibit opens in July at Visions Art Museum in San Diego, so this is top of my to-do list.
I am using the same Blurb software with which I designed the Tall Girl Series book, but alas a decade has passed, software has been upgraded and I am ten years older! So far I have managed to find answers to all my questions and watched a couple You Tube videos to remind me how to do some PhotoShop tricks. All in all, it is fun but a huge time suck. Although I should take a break every hour, I am lucky if I do every 2-3 hours.
My biggest fear is if I fall too far down the left brain rabbit hole, will I find my way back to stitching, easy enough? I guess if that fear is realized I can always clean out the basement or start looking at fixtures for the bathroom remodel which is also on the list.
I don’t know what people are talking about that I should play more! Is this not play? Let’s put it this way. I am seldom bored.
Onward…
finished quilt top
finished quilt back…pesky blocks return
This quote from C.S. Lewis describes the relationship I think you have with your craft…and it is play for you.
“We do not want merely to see beauty . . . We want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.”
What a lovely and apt quote…thank you Judy!