Good Day friends. You showed up again!!! Is someone paying you for this? Well, don’t answer that, lets not get into reasons why we’re here – I’m grateful to have you! Please allow me to prioritize and get a little off message. I simply must share Jan’s great Doll Quilt at What a Load a Scrap. I luv the quilt – and this is the most important part – she describes her use of fabrics in a way that pulled me into the quilt making. I was there. With her. Into it. I felt happy to be a Repro gal. Definitely check it out. Let her know I’m over here sending you her way if you feel so inclined.

Then there’s Kingston and gosh doesn’t this post feel like a housekeeping post? It’s really about something more but I’m dragging you along to get to the meat of it. Sorry man. Scroll down, I’ll never know. I’m cosmic but I’m not that cosmic! So Kingston is recovering. That’s all I have to say there. Now I can get back to focusing on Karen and health, healing, soulfulness and water, water, water. Thank you Liz at Scrap Basket for keeping me on task with my water intake. You ROCK! and I want everyone to know Liz really did a great thing by caring for me in this way. I was worried about my cat and not paying attention to *karendianne. until Liz said “Hey! Water!!!” So can we move on now?

Yes we can but if you’re interested in my most recent wordle take a look… I’m kinda partial to that word that stands out. I’ll be quiet about it though so we can get on with this post. Gratitude.

I wanted to go back and share with you the comments from Why 75% Matters to Me and a little bit about what I learned. I thought maybe you might be interested in a run down.

I learned I’m not alone for one thing. Whew, thank goodness. Isn’t it interesting how we often think we are the only one in the world with this problem or that problem? Speaking up and out sometimes does cool things like open the gates so please, read on…

We mostly all hit spots that trip us up. Not everyone and my respect to those of you who have that committed endurance to make it fully from start to finish without a snag or distraction. Some of us are made like that and it’s a pleasure to watch you work and a real pleasure to know you. But back to what I learned…

Cabin Track in progress with sashing strips on display

Borders are a big one. Some of us work through it by making quilts without borders – planning from the start. I never liked that idea but I dig the messenger on this one and I’m going to open my mind, talk with my Rigid Quilter and see where that might lead in the future. Growth!? Well, lets call it a Seed.


Designers. I never thought of that! Design and draft but then the actual creation? This makes a lot of sense to me even though I’m not a designer. I think I can understand this. Leave it to Paula to communicate something I can really sort of “get” even though it’s out of my league.

Thank the heavens, someone (Mary) finally said it. Blocks into Rows! Yep, this is another transition in quilting making. I’m glad she shared and I think I’ll just be happy that I’m not alone the next time I see that step holding me up. I thought I was so alone and never mentioned it to anyone. Just sucked it up but now I can see this as a real transitional place in quiltmaking.

Then there are those of us, like me, that just go along and wait for the “Spirit” of the Quilt but Jennifer contributed her take which is that “genius can’t be rushed” and that felt good to read because that’s another good, healthy way to feel about it. But another great metaphor was Julie’s comment which referred to it as the “Guardian Angel” and boy do I like that. Especially when you’re working on some particularly particular!

And because I’m not a longarmer I didn’t even think of that aspect of the quiltmaking so everyone that shared this aspect really made a big contribution. How you work with determining how to Quilt a Quilt is beyond me. That sort of thinking and designing and planning, well I think it would slay me so I really am “hats off” to you and say a big – THANK YOU. Learned here!

Meredith reflected back on what used to trip her up. That would be when things didn’t go as planned. I thought that was actually and excellent point, don’t you? She reflected back though and this is actually my current reality.

I learned so much from everyone’s comments I can’t thank you enough. If you didn’t catch it, Sio (Scraps and Threadtales) cracked me up with “if I could just play in fabric and make blocks I’d be perfectly happy!”

I hope you’ve gleaned something from the sharing of info on getting through the Quiltmaking. I thought it was a good enough post to summarize and revisit. If you’re interested enough you might want to take in the comments yourself as I could pull just a few that really hit me. There was a lot there to pull from. Well, not a ton but a good amount. So again, thank you for contributing. Your work and experience really made the topic fantastic!

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

- Oscar Wilde