Upon Awakening

The dawn. Like an unstitched Amish design awaiting my size 12 between...

See? It starts the moment of awareness, the first thing each day. Criminy! The good news is there are others just like me out there, and we get it -- quilting is who we are.

Are you one of us? If it's an illness, I'm glad I signed up for it. If it's a compulsion, how could I be so blessed to be compulsed thusly? Regardless, come tell me all about how you got so quilty. Share the thoughts, the witicisms, the feeling of being whole by cutting things up and putting them back together again per your own design.

If you wanna brag about your quilts, go right ahead, but include some kind of story or witicism that adds a little zip to your oration. Even I don't care to hear someone drone on and on without something fun to break the monotony. In other words, I quilt AND write. And I think about both of 'em.

Oh, yeah. Ix-nay on saying things like "Hugs from (insert your name)", and other cutie-pie blather. This isn't the spot for sharing info on tea houses, or whether a Stack and Whack pattern would work on the stairway wall. I'm the sort of quilter who gets dizzy from all the preciousness in the typical quilt shop. I understand it, but please, just point me to the solids and let me figure the rest out myself.

Let's use our brains, people, and add a little patchwork to the gray matter. Do you dye it yourself before you cut it up and put it back together? Do you design as you go? Do you prefer traditional quilting methods, and most of all, are you one of the rare modern quilters who does it all yourself from start to finish -- design, construction, and handquilting -- and, you don't send your binding out for someone else to do? I'm big into appliqué, and hand piecing sends me into orbit, even though I rarely do it.

If you blast from your seat with a YES, then come to Mama!!! I mean, there aren't that many of us who make the whole dang thing from start to finish anymore. The challenge goes from the design to the binding -- and it's all mine. Is it all yours? Join me!

Check back. I can be real chatty.

Her Quiltness,
Kari

Copyright © 3/22/2005 Kari E.O. Burns