Thinking outside the box - Part 1

Let me share with you what I am feeling.

I am an introvert when it comes to everyday life, I love to be alone and do whatever I want and whenever I want.

If I am hungry I will eat, I don't care if it is 11 am or 2 pm, I will have my lunch when I am hungry and not necessarily because lunch should be taken at noon.

If I want to watch a movie in the middle of the day, I will take a break and watch it, and not at 8 pm because a movie should only be watched in the evening.

But most of all, if I want to spend 12 hours working on a quilt, I can spend my entire day making a quilt.

I can stay weeks without piecing a fabric, but when I get started, I just have to get it done no matter how long it takes, usually I don't see time go by and will realize after a while that it is 2 in the morning and it is time to actually go to bed!!

The following morning I will get my cup of warm chocolate and get to the sewing room straight away and that is when my lunch time gets pushed back until I am really hungry!!

For some time I have been saying that every quilt has a story to tell, and that when we look at a finished quilt it brings back memories.

Memories of a step in the making that either took time because we couldn't get it right, or because once it was sewn and spread on the designer wall we realize that a shape is in the wrong direction.

I rarely work at a repeated pace of a few hours, meaning an hour or two a day, I usually spend the day once I get started. Sometimes I will have to put it on hold until I have an entire day available again.

Emmanuelle