Two Symphonies

 The "symphonies", well the first one, happened by accident. The second one happened more on purpose. Right now each has four movements with a color guiding me.

This was the first one. I called it Not the Last Piece. That was because I had used some handwritten cloth in it & the one at the lower right border had the words Last & Piece written one above the other. It played into a thought I occasionally have about whether the quilt I am working on will be the last one. I used two Indian wood-block stampers on the piece. You can see it in their effects in the close up.

So I decided to hold onto some aspects of the design elements & do another.

I kept the two stampers, kept the long skinny lines moving through, & kept some large L shapes.

The next one was in red. This is a detail the look before I quilted it...

& after it was finished.

Finally the blue one before it was quilted up...

 & after it was finished.

Here are all 4.

And I recognized at the time I was getting tired of the work of sustaining all the elements. The blue one didn't get a fancy L shaped border!

Sometimes on my workwall there is a "seed" lying there waiting to be acted upon. Now the seed was a block from a quilt I made in 1970 in anticipation of the Joslyn's birth. The block had been there for years!

Here was that baby quilt.

Somehow I had harvested a block, one of the green ones, from it!

Too bad I hadn't harvested all salvageable blocks! [sigh]

[I also used the sawtooth pattern for Lucy's baby quilt in 2006. A sawtooth variation.]

So the first movement of the next symphony got called Left-over Triangles. There were other much smaller triangles lying around on my work wall. They got harvested.

Left-Over Triangles II came next, because there were more still lurking up there.

The reverse of this quilt was pretty cool I thought...

How to complete the symphony? Of course No Left-over Triangles & No Left-over Triangles II.

 The final movement in yellow was helped along by another seed on the workwall... I loved these colors & was looking for a way to employ them.

So the 4 movements together....

Having special cloth on the borders became an important unifier.

Signing off in one of my favorite new shirts...[see above seed colors]

That's it for now.