Breaking Up is Hard To Do

Today I said goodbye to this Mint Chocolate Chip Beauty. It is not easy to end a quilting relationship. She was lovingly packed up and sent to South Korea with one final farewell. I started this quilt last year and played with it off and on and then finished it in a flourish. Not nearly enough time to get used to the idea of breaking up and saying goodbye. Lucky for me, there is a small twin-lette Mint Chocolate Chip Quilt that sits folded up in my drawer to occupy me when I feel the urge to have another scoop. It is the end of something and the beginning of something with leftovers. I hope it will be as patient as its' predecessor with my scattered loving attention.

Saying farewell got me thinking, I currently have several Pretties waiting for homes. My kids would have you believe they are in desperate need of another quilt, but I need quilting fabric more than they need another quilt....right?!? Well...I think so.

So, the following quilts are available. Let me know if you are interested in purchasing one of them--we can work something out. You can have your own strange relationship with a quilt....

Pink Floral Fantasy:
A Double White & Pink Female looking for a lasting relationship with someone who loves to snuggle. A real blushing beauty.
Yours Truly, The Gadabout:
A Throw Sized Flashing Showgirl, Looking for a long term relationship with a couch potato.

My Life's Ups and Downs Quilt should be on this list, along with the Smoothy Quilt, but I just can't bring myself to post them. Let me know if you can't live without one of them. That seems to be how it is for me and creating a quilt: I get so connected. I read somewhere someone said that they hated to send their quilts away to strangers--it is much better knowing they are going to be loved somewhere familiar, I think. My two girlfriend who have my quilts were super easy to give to. I know they appreciate the work and love investment. And familymembers are also very easy to send a quilt home with, plus you can always check in on your beauties to see how they are holding up. Speaking of which, I just visited my sisters Birds and Swirls. That is such a pretty quilt. It was created to pair with a beautiful Asian painting for her bedroom and bordered with hand embroidered birds. I still need to get a picture of that one and share it!

Tonight has been an interesting restless night. First assembled a Fig Tree Quilt creation which I copied fabric choices and pattern from the fancy fabric store I love to visit and leave money at. OOOO, just wait til I get my camera on that one. Then I created mega blocks by assembling smaller stained glass hour glass blocks to get a feel for how that quilt is going to look. Soon enough I moved on and created a pattern for one quilt--worked it out and then started the quilt. Finally I cut charm squares out of this wonderful fabric combo that I have been oogle-ing for weeks and sewed together a stack of them to get a feel for that new quilt creation. None of these projects have ANYTHING to do with my recently hung "inspiration piece". Maybe it is just inspiring me to try something different....I think it is just hard to settle back in after the big break up with me and Mint Chocolate Chip.