quilting off center

....i really should learn to trust in the seasons. nature's changes are very reassuring. the fever we call spring has inspired the return of my core project for the year. i have spring FEVER. i've begun to extend the edges of the quilt which, like the reversible aspect of 'listen to the river', is the experimental part of this project. ...every project needs something that can be a question answered.... i have cut (a milestone) into the old quilts. oh the relief of letting them go! i am simply butting them together and laying a strip of green corduroy over the break. on both sides. and stitching through. it will be fine and the break between the sections will allow the piece to absorb extra drape.
what i am really paying attention to now...is how the center shifts each time i add a new edge. i will think about this some more.

the winner is # 5. and i need an address. i am too tired today, BUT, i have decided that gifting, like vitamins, will be a one-a-day routine for me starting tomorrow. tomorrow the gift packet will be velvets. another 10 numbers please...

Comments

[Nyx]

I love how everything you add seems to belong where it is and how it is done. Always inspiring to see something you make develop and read the story that goes with it :)

[sarita]

I'll pick 6 again, please...:)

[Sharon]

I love the way Fever is evolving.

I would like number 8, please.

Sharon

[Mary]

love it too! I think I'll pick 3! did the funky silks arrive yet?

[jeanne herself]

cut-relief-letting go. yes. like what you said about projects should answer a question, too, though sometimes mine tend to ask questions. which is okay cause i mostly prefer questions anyway. put my name beside #10, please ma'am.

[Anita]

I love your work. You have really have inspired me to start going through my fabrics and supplies again. Everything you do seems so natural. Fever is wonderful and I love the additions. I pick number 4, if it is not already taken.

[Cat]

I love your site. I come here everyday and you have inspired me to do more hand quilting and also to give things away! What fun! Thank you so much! I love velvets so I will go with my lucky number 7.
Thank you again!
Cat

[Acey]

this piece has really defined itself as a personal vision quest, no? I typed that a few hours ago in the meantime somebody special to me has been around and some of your "vitamins" have gone home with her she is happy now instead of anxious & stressed as when she arrived...

[Heidi]

So I'll pick no 5.
Love how the fever quilt develops

[Clare]

I love the way each section goes together as if it was meant to be.

[Gaelle]

You are doing such beautiful things :)
I'd love to have as much creativity as you. I'm trying...
I'll pick 9 ;)

[Tracey Dean AKA rattytatty]

Hi Jude

We are starting a new challenge blog with a difference. Entries amd guest designers will be from all areas of arts and crafts, and we would love to invite you to be a guest designer.
We are always inspired by items from different areans, so we wanted to share that with other crafters.
If you would be interested
e mail us at thisthursday@artlover.com
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[Jill]

Keep going. Number 29 for me. Jill

[shula]

I wowed my daughter a couple of days ago with pictures of your visual diary. She ran off and started one immediately.

She is on the couch with a cold and has been working for 2 days straight.

I think it was the picture of the dude in the water with the mountains behind and the fish poking up?

Big hit, mate. BIG hit.

[deb]

:::2:::

I'm in NY now and need some inspiration

[calamity kim]

I just came to say congrats on the ink! I picked up the newest Artful Blogger Mag and saw your picture- I said- I KNOW HER!!! very cool.
so- on this quilt- I like the way it shifted with the addition of the side piece. Happy Spring! Flame on Sistah!

[Martine]

11 is my lucky number.......... who knows.

[Ravenhill]

This quilt is coming along splendidly!

[cathie]

Jude - you are breathing more and more life into this quilt every day. With each patch, each stitch it is speaking louder and louder. Soon it will be screaming. Beautiful.

[Kristin La Flamme]

What a wonderful surprise to see this in it's entirety. i was wondering if it still held much of it's original black and white -- and it does. The checkerboard border compliments the roots of the quilt beautifully. I'm liking an off center center and hope it stays that way with the addition of any more borders.