Once in a while, it pays to clean and organize…A few weeks ago, I found this Mariner’s Compass block buried in a box of unfinished quilt pieces…
I drafted it the old-fashioned way…with rulers and a compass–onto freezer paper. Freezer paper has an adhesive side that can be ironed onto fabric…
For some reason, this project got interrupted and forgotten…only to be found again now…like pieces of gold from a shipwreck…
Now it is hanging on my sewing room wall where I can see it daily and let design choices “incubate” while I work on other projects…
I typically have a few projects in the “incubator” while working on other quilts. Then one day, all the ideas will “gel” in my wee little brain, and I will lock myself up in my sewing room for several hours and plunge into the project…
It’s an odd creative process, but that’s typically how it works for me…What about you? Do you have a “typical creative process“? Do you work a project from beginning to end or do you stop along the way to work on other things? I am fascinated by “the creative process”…
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