along a Stone Path

Tapestry Garden in Winter

Do you know what grounds me like nothing else? Returning to the sewing table.

It always begins the same way: choosing fabrics, cutting shapes. These are simply choices, that don’t matter much in the grand scheme of things. If I do go the “wrong” way I can almost always back up, take out a seam, try something else.

I’m sewing hourglass blocks today, which is one of my patchwork favorites. The blocks come together like magic. Follow the recipe and you get perfect quadrants of triangle delightfulness, every time.

After creating a satisfying batch of hourglass blocks, it’s back to the cutting board for the low volume sashing. And do you know that I love cutting just as much as sewing? Random pieces turn into satisfying, identically-shaped rectangles. Tidy.

Yep, I adore the patchwork process - hook, line and sinker.

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TODAY’S STITCHED IN COLOR IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY~

Little Fabric Shop

Have you seen the new Ruby Star Society Webbing?!?!? If there was ever a time to sew a bag, this is IT, people. Webbing is ideal for bag straps, handles, and eye-catching accents. I’m imagining a summer tote bag or a duffle like this.

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I am surrounding my hourglass blocks with cornerstone stashing to create a series of stepping stones for Tapestry Garden quilt.

Tada! This is Stone Path in the winter. Now stonier than ever.

Once added onto the design wall, my latest blocks seem to melt away into the whole. Mmmm… The quilt is taking on an elegant, complicated beauty. Like a poem. Or a black and white image. Or the city skyline at night.

I’m eager to get back to this second and very different Tapestry Garden.