THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART . . .

Traditionally (at least for the last 3 years), I've begun my big quilt and quilt/lapse productions on the first day of Spring. I was all ready to go. The last of the 30 yards of fabric had been hunted down, 18 unique pieces in all, locations had been scouted and permissions for their use were granted, people were getting excited about the quilt/lapse project I was proposing and getting ready to start. There was a buzz in the air about all the possibilities. The weather was even cooperating, it was the epitome of spring. "JUST WATCH", the quilt and production was just about to begin. I even had been playing around with some of the fabric earlier just to see how some techniques would work out.

But an unwelcome visitor was coming to stay for a while, and that changed everyone's plans. Including mine.

Heavy sigh.

I've always been a start til you finish, one-quilt-at-a-time, type o' guy. But late last summer, a light bulb went on and enlightened me to the benefits of multiple projects going at once. I finally wised up and joined the ranks of millions of other quilters . . . . and decided to take on more than one project at a time. Namely, to relive boredom, but especially for circumstances like this . . . a coronal viral outbreak. A world wide pandemic. So, while we're all sequestered to our homes for the next few weeks (months?), I've been prepared enough to have at least 4 other quilts in various states of production . . . along with various states of video production to go along with them. Some of these may end up just being little 'mini productions' (unlike the monster that sleeps, pictured above).

I'm breathing life into an old quilt I made for my Father some 30+ years ago, for Father's Day.

I never quilted it, rather opting to tie it down with small strings of red yarn. After last year's (positive) experience with glittery, holographic thread, I thought I'd glitz up this old friend with the same, along with some fancy, experimental quilting ideas and designs.

I've also quietly been working on a quilt this winter for my sister-in-law, Sherry. I say quietly because it was supposed to be a simple little throw she could curl up with on the couch at night. A quick, easy project I could work on while I waited for the weather to warm up and I could get outside to start this year's production.. I wasn't going to make a big deal about it. I wasn't even going to make a quilt/lapse production out of it. But naturally, because I took it on . . . it became much larger and more complicated.

A LOT of fun!!!! But more work than I was anticipating. I'm super excited with how it turned out! (another quilt I'll be sad to part with) The quilt top is done and I'm currently quilting it here at home in the studio. Gilda approves.

Hmmmmm . . .

Maybe I'll sew just one block of "JUST WATCH" . . . . .

You know, just to see what it looks like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .