One of the good things about getting older is that you realize sometimes its ok to break the rules. Today I drove an hour to have lunch with a friend. When we met in the parking lot we discovered that the restaurant was closed for repairs! So we milled around for a few minutes trying to figure out what to do, and we decided to go in anyway, sit on the cafe patio in the shade and have a long chat. We proceeded to have one of the deepest conversations ever. No food or patrons or staff to distract us!
The reign of Quilt Police has been over for awhile. The thrill of breaking rules has been replaced by the freedom to be creatively experimental. Quilters don’t wait for someone to teach them a block or technique. They make up their own original blocks and new techniques, and then share on social media! Hooray! I am seeing a whole new crop of pattern designers who are just designing their own quilts because nobody told them they couldn’t do it….so they just go and figure out how to do it themselves. Hooray!
To me that is what this Pink Poinsettia represents. It is taking something old, remaking it, and making something that makes one HAPPY. I sure don’t mind if you prefer Red Poinsettias, but I like the sweetness of the Pink Poinsettia. It makes me think of homemade mittens, peppermint sticks in hot cocoa, pink ballet tutus, and spending the whole day in the kitchen baking and decorating holiday cookies. It makes me think of the little winter birds twittering in the snow-laden trees after a winter storm, fluttering their wings and sending showers of white powder from the heavy branches.
Do something spontaneously creative this week, by combining something old and something new…or maybe by mixing up something familiar and something that is a little bit scary and maybe a little sassy too. Go ahead. Squirt that pink icing on your Sasquatch-shaped sugar cookie. Then take a big bite!
This luscious Dream Big Poinsettia panel by designer Jeannie Sumrall-Ajero comes with a Sugar-Pink Poinsettia, a classic Ruby-Red Poinsettia, or a Snow-White Poinsettia. I’ve added some winter bird scenes just for fun. Because….fabric should make you happy and quilting should be FUN.
…sharing your love of fabric,
Luana and Paul
Quilt/Travel Calendar:
Sept 21-29 – Alaska (Anchorage & Katmai)
Oct 23-30 – Houston Quilt Market & Festival
Nov 13 – Zoom lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” – Visions Art Museum
Dec 4 – Zoom lecture “Intl Quilt Trends” – Quilt Canada
Jan 12 – Apr 9, 2022 – New England Quilt Museum (NEQM) “For the Love of Gaia” exhibit
Sat, April 9 – “International Quilt Trends” lecture – NEQM
