Collecting Spiderwebs

when I wish I was sewing

Moving is always tricky, but this one was particularly challenging for my sewing life. First, we figured out on moving day that the longarm did NOT fit up the main apartment stairwell. But that is a story for another day. Maybe tomorrow!

The second surprise came when I sat down at my Juki to sew.. and the dear machine didn’t work. My beloved Juki TL2010Q is at the sewing machine shop now, so I’m working on my backup machine, a Janome that I mainly use for zigzag stitching my quilt bindings. I am finding its straight stitch abilities frustrating in comparison to the Juki experience.

Across from my sewing seat is a big white wall that will be my design wall someday. Maybe also tomorrow? Meanwhile I’m enjoying looking at Floris’ drawing, which I plan to hang elsewhere in this space.

I have yet to sew a stitch of patchwork at the new place. Sigh. But at least I have patchwork from my bee mates to cheer me up. These colorful spiderweb blocks came in by mail just before my move.

I popped them up on my old design wall to get a look, knowing that it would take some time to get my design wall set up anew.

Well, isn’t that pretty? Now seeing this is again good motivation for me to bite the bullet and start sewing with my Janome. I am itching to make more of these blocks.

We’re alternating cool webs with warm backgrounds or vice versa - warm webs with cool backgrounds. The “backgrounds” become the stars between the webs. This warm/cool contrast adds just a touch of order to a vibrantly chaotic story. I have a ton of scraps that want to come out and play.

First a bit of sewing, then make that new design wall?