I have had a charm pack of Moda's Flutterby line sitting in my cupboard for several weeks now. In the spirit of one of my new idols,
Crazy Mom Quilts, I decided to do something out of the ordinary for me--utter randomness! Honestly--I didn't even look through the fabrics at all, except to split them up and arrange them for this photo:
After the photo, I separated the charm pack into six piles (again, didn't even look at them individually), and cut three 1 1/2" strips from each square. I then cut 2 inches off each 1 1/2" x 5" strip.
To perpetuate the random theme, I jumbled both piles up,
and chain-sewed the pieces back together several times--trying not to even think about color combinations except to make sure that two like colors never touched each other (can this still be counted as random)? It was fun to discover the fabrics as I went along--sort of my own little mystery quilt, I guess. I had intended for this to be a table runner, but I think it is evolving into a small quilt. Here is what I have so far:
I've been playing a lot with the arrangement. I'm going to put them on a brown background--we'll see how the finished product ends up looking--a mystery all around. Sometimes it's fun to just create without a lot of thought. I've been doing a lot of heavy duty brainwork lately
(Click here to find out why) and it was lovely just to relax and sew!
What do you think???
