When you GOTTA be creative!!

Yesterday I had one of those days….. there were things that I SHOULD be doing (finishing the videoing for my upcoming course), but I desperately wanted to be creative in some way!!

So, I decided to split the day…..create in the morning and video in the afternoon!!

But what was I going to create??

Was I going to continue working on this piece…..

Was I going to start quilting on one of the THREE quilts that are waiting for some time under the needle?

NO….. I was going to start something new!!

It began on Friday as I watched a video about string piecing. Then there was this glimpse of a strip quilt made with mostly brown fabrics but adding pops of red.

I couldn’t get it out of my mind and kept also thinking about all of the brown strips that I had sitting in my drawers….

So….off I toddled into the studio.

I started out by making a strip set….

….cut it into squares and then sliced on the diagonal…..

I added a red strip to the cut side…..

Now it was time to make another, smaller strip set, and cut the triangles out from the side….

I sewed the two triangles together….

And ended up with this fun block….

I made several of them and started playing with layouts….

This is DEFINITELY a design that I will play with more, but for now…..

…into a project box!!

I kept to my plan and spent the afternoon working on a video, but sadly when it started downloading, there was an error and I lost what I had done. VERY BIG SIGH!!

Oh well, I will re-do it today and it will be even better!!

So, that is what I do when I “GOTTA” create…..how about you?