Saturday Stitch Report #8
A Bag, a Block, and a Question
It has been a busy stretch around here. Family has needed my time, and I’ve been working on posts for my clinic, Inspired Life Wellness Clinic at www.inspired-lifewellness.com. If you’d like to follow along with that writing, you can find the clinic online. The quilting page and blog have been quieter.
I did manage to finish a few things.
The latest block for the Fat Quarter Shop Designer Mystery quilt is pieced and ready for the growing collection. I also made a bag using a pattern I created as I went. The blue and cream fabrics and patchwork came together into a bag I’m happy with, even though the pattern itself exists only as a vague series of decisions in my memory.
Did I write any of it down? Of course not. I winged it.
So if I ever want to make this bag again, I’ll either have to reconstruct the process from the finished one or accept that the next version will be a completely different bag with the same general ambitions.
Lately, I’ve also been questioning whether I should keep the page and blog going. There are so many good quilting blogs out there. Many share tutorials, detailed instructions, and videos. I don’t feel especially qualified to talk about quilting in that way, and I don’t have the time right now to make videos or build a library of tutorials.
I’m still figuring out what I want this space to be—and whether I have the time and energy to keep tending it. I don’t have a decision to announce today. For now, I have a finished block, an improvised bag, and a reminder to write down the next pattern before I forget how I made it.
Have a great week and happy stitching!
Chris
