Dear Liza,
In search of fabric for my France map quilt, I took the # 75 bus to the #72 to Bolt Fabric the other day. It’s a quick trip, and nice to see new neighborhoods.
Bolt didn’t disappoint! I found the palette I had chosen in solid cottons, which will be good for appliqué-ing and embroidering as the project moves along. I got the fabric home and washed it.
And now I need to decide on the style of the map. The main body will be green, the lower mountains purple, and the peaks of the Alps and Pyrenees will be red. Coastlines will be a soft peach. Am I sure? Maybe.
With my five colors, it will not be a ‘realistic’ map. It will be modern, abstract, more …. stylized. But what style?
I’m wrestling with that, in one of my favorite stages of creation, the “creative problem”.
My goal at this point is to let each stage sit long enough, and look at it often enough, so I don’t get ahead of myself.
So far the only cutting I’ve done is to make the basic green hexagon shape. The rest will come, I’m sure.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 