snow go go slow

 Moving on from yesterdays silliness.

The snow has all but gone...

unless you count my snowday quilt,

which is slowly growing.
The basic technique for this pattern
can be found here in my fussy cutting tutorial

 My templates for paper piecing have increased in size of late.

I have realised the devil that sits on my shoulder

causing me pain

has a name.

He is called EPP.

(English paper piecing)

As a epp addict,

 the larger my templates, the less fiddly it is

and the best thing is

 I have a quilt in no time.

So remembering my word balance

I am taking things slow...having high hopes and feeling crafty at least twice a day!

There has been a lot of talk lately about how a quilt is born.

How do you choose?

Firstly you need to decide on your style

If you are going to the effort of making a quilt 

you have to love it now but also in the future.

Green may be flavour of the month right now,

but will you like it next year?

I like orange 

I have made quilts which include orange

I have orange fabric..

yet orange decor is not my style.

Flashes of orange yes,

but in general teal will win out every time.

I also like to use objects with great colour schemes,

see my french window mini post

which shows my colour/pattern inspiration.

If you are still in doubt make a scrap quilt or a hexagon quilt

with no colour restraints,

they seem to fit into any homestyle.

Deciding on the pattern for me evolves mainly in my head

epp projects follow on from each other really.

My next machine project started with a challenge

batik fabrics.

 A number of hours spent perusing my quilt books

and searching online,

a purchase of some charcoal kona cotton 

gives me high hopes

that I will create a thing of beauty

and not something new age hippie

(which is highly probable given the materials!)

ps.

There's nothing wrong with hippie
 I am all hippie.