First Entry

First entry- I know! What a boring title for a first blog entry. I will have to get more creative with the in the future.

Since I put up a picture, I might as well explain that now, since the picture could change in the future.
Here's the pic:

As you can see, it's a pointillism of a young lady, dress blowing in the wind. A pointillism is a drawing that is composed of just dots. This piece of art was done by my daughter, Emilie, and the full size is a 3x5 index card. I should really get it mounted and hung. Right now it's on our refrigerator. She did it in a single day in an art class at school. Yes, I know she's a talented kid!

This is the basis for a future quilt, one on my long To-Do List. I've got my Quilting UFO list, my To-Do list, my Neat-Idea-But-I'll-Never-Try-It list. As a quilter, it's always best to keep looking at things from a new prospective. Many times, works of art will give me new inspiration for quilting patterns. Some people like to segment their quilting into only continuous lines, but I find I would rather stop and start than to keep a monotonous pattern. I like free motion quilting, and think that I would never use a pantograph or a groovy board with my Avante, but paying customers may just change my mind about that someday. I want every quilt I do to be like this pointillism, a single unique piece of art.