Making an art quilt for the Outside My Window challege

The Quiltart list is talking blogs at the moment. Perfect reason for a new post! 

I thought I would show a little of my inspiration for a challenge I participated in on the Quiltart list last spring. The challenge is called  'Outside my Window'.

 This is the view I see from my kitchen window. Just the lowest shrubs have leaves so this is mid April, still chilly out, and late afternoon, perhaps 5:00 pm. There is an evergreen ground cover growing back there that was planted decades ago and has naturalized since then. It is center left, mid ground.

 I had trouble with the angled trees, although they are plentiful, because for some reason they detracted from what I perceived was the beauty of the view. This was an early version:

Boring! Looks a bit like a Grecian temple =:o I knew there were good bones there so I didn't give up!

Here is the finished version:

I woke up one morning with the plan for the rolled blind at the top all settled in my head. All the pieces came together easily and it was a joy to work on.

Thanks, Quiltart list, for the encouragement to be involved! I had a good time!

Quiltart

It always feels good when everything comes together, like an open door, or window, letting the flow move unimpeded. I know retirement has freed up something vital in me and I'm grateful for that feeling...a certain lack of anxiety...because I'm enjoying artmaking so much more than ever before!

I wish you freedom

Sue
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 Welcome, everyone!

 I've created this new blog with an idea of hosting online quilt shows. Our first challenge is Dia de los Muertos 2014, and is being followed by the artists on the listgroup over at Quiltart.com. I'm very excited about this challenge and am having great fun as  my piece comes together! I'm going to share some random pictures to test the ability of the blog to handle multiple photos and text, so bear with me. Here is a sample of recent work, newest (tonight) to oldest (started last winter)

All of these are going on in my kitchen, where I do most of my work. I finished 2 baby quilts in July and now its time to wrap some of these up too! It takes me much longer to decide how to quilt a quilt than any other thing. After years of hesitation and procrastination Ive realized....just do it. If I can work on two things in the same day I feel like I'm staying ahead of it. Who am I kidding? I love to be surrounded by so many of my babies in progress.

Thanks for taking a minute with me, helping me to break in the new blog!

Sue