Monday, February 20, 2017

EYE(S)

Reading the latest Bee Sewcial prompt is always a trepidatious moment, following by a time of waiting and pondering. At some point, I gather a pile of approved fabrics and just start cutting.

With Karen/@capitolaquilter's theme of EYE(S), I finally came up with a vision for the first block, but after getting just so far, I needed a break. See, I really need to be in the right head-space to tackle these blocks, and that was depleted pretty quickly on this one. 


Fortunately, several days later, the time and head-space returned, and I was able to finish the block at 11.5" x 14.5". Acutally, the flow of the curves was going well enough, but actually calling it done was hard. So finally, I just trimmed it once the block seemed relatively balanced.


I had a rough plan for the second block, but somewhere in the finishing of the first, it came to mind that I had a personal eye-story of my own. When I was born, I had a blue eye and a brown eye. Thinking of that immediately led me in another direction, and I came up with this block, which measures 12.5" x 15". Dare I say I love this block enough I may need to explore with it more some day.


Whew. It's always a relief to have survived another month, but the prompts are always such a good stretch! See more of what the bee is doing on Instagram at #beesewcial, and also what others are creating at #inspiredbybeesewcial.

6 comments:

  1. love your blocks. it's always cool when our work expresses a story. thanks for sharing yours

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  2. These are awesome! Love what you created - especially the first one with the 'eye'!

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  3. Like your eyes...I pretty much favor the first one, but then you didn't ask, lol. My daughter was born with blue eyes except one is 1/4 brown. Always a conversation when someone notices.
    xx, Carol

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  4. I can imagine how challenging these prompts are! Your EYE is just amazing! I cannot believe how perfectly you nailed it!

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  5. Great job... I am new to the improv stuff... or should i say i have been doing "improv" for years not knowing what to call it...LOL... I most always fly by the seat of my pants... My problem is trying to stay modern with such a huge stash of "older" fabrics... I figure, if i bought it once, I liked it so SOMETHING will come of it.. any input in that direction would be wonderful... I will have my 70th this year, but will always be a "funky gal"....

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  6. I really like both blocks, but the second one is so cool! I cannot wait to see all of those "eye" blocks together in a quilt. :-)

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