You’ll want to read what Jacquie of Tallgrass Prairie Studio has to say about the trend toward improvisational quilting. And I know lots of quilters are going to get behind Jacquie’s Project Improv, a year-long opportunity that she’s hosting. Jacquie says,
These are some of the things that we could explore: variations of the construction of the block itself, the fabrics we use, how we cut our fabric (rotary, scissors, tearing), color/pattern combinations, wonkiness (of course)… What other ideas do you have? If you’ve never pieced improvisationally I’ll be here to support you and hopefully more experienced folks will join in and help too. Each of us is at a different place in our level of comfort with improvisation. The task here is to identify your comfort zone and take one step (or more) outside of it…
I would like this project to include making pieces for ourselves, but also contributing to others. I am asking each quilter who joins the project to commit to making one 12.5 inch improvised log cabinish block to donate to a charity quilt… I’d like them to arrive by April 1st with July 1 being the deadline for finishing up the charity quilts. I will group the charity blocks together and depending on how many folks join in we can make them into quilts. I will make at least one and I hope some of you who join in will want to volunteer to finish some into quilts too.
Quilting + learning + doing a kindness for others. This project rocks. Get the details for participating from Jacquie’s blog.
I love this idea!