Retreat!

The word has many connotations and meanings in our culture, depending on how it’s used. In this case, it means a quilt retreat next week, and since I’ll be hours from home, I have to curate what I take to work on. There’s no running to my studio looking for a specific fabric that would be ‘perfect’ in my next project.

One project I’ll try to complete while I’m away is getting the next Jazz Quilt ready to be quilted. When viewing the 1st completed quilt in this series, it was evident that a light color fusible backing would lighten and brighten the bright colors in the quilt tops. This isn’t something I would normally do, given that my batting is a light color, but the seams where the lights and darks came together did not thrill me. These little gems just make me happy, but they needed polish to make them perfect. OK, not perfect, but perfectly lovely?

Not being around other artists was one of the most challenging things about Covid. Thank goodness for zoom! And whoever thought that would be a phrase coming from me has never actually met me. I normally suck at technology, and I own it. No tweeting, or rather X, no insta, tic-tock, or whatever other choices come and go. I don’t hate technology, it just seems like a time-suck to me. It’s easy to go down a Pinterest worm hole and have an hour pass. That’s an hour lost to making, designing, cutting, or stitching… and my time here is finite!

Make the most of every day.

Beth