A bit of a change

For some reason I’m really struggling at the moment to find motivation to do anything, like write something for here, do my healing work, start cutting out the fabric for my quilt.

My motivation seems to have got up and gone.

In the last post I talked about the tangle quilt and how I wasn’t sure about the blocks. So, while I was colouring one of the blocks I didn’t like the way it looked and thought it looked pants. Because of that, I went to cut out another piece of fabric so I could redo the block but well and truly ballsed it up. So because of that mistake I didn’t have any more fabric the right size so I had to have a complete change. I started off working in green.

Like this one

Because of the mess up and the change I ended up using this fabric.

I’ve now finished colouring the blocks but before I show you the finished block I’ll show you the one that cause the trouble. It was this block that caused the change:

I just didn’t like the way it looked. This is a picture of the replacement block:

As you can see that looks a millimetre times better and even more so as it’s been coloured. That is just one of the blocks. Here’s a little gallery of the rest of them:

I think you might agree that on the lighter fabric the blocks look a million times better.

The writing under the lotus flower is

Om mani padme hum

Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. Wikipedia

It basically translates as hail the jewel in the lotus and it’s all about compassion and if there was more of that it wouldn’t be a bad thing.

Now I just need to decide which other fabrics to use for the other bits of the quilt.

There are a couple to choose from. And when I’ve made that decision I need to grow some backbone and start the cutting process. As you might have guessed from earlier cutting out is where I have been known to have issues.

Also I have some sad news to report. It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have to tell you that unfortunately my little iron died. It had a happy but tough short life working for some very long days at times but it passed away peacefully last Thursday. The position wasn’t vacant very long and and was filled on Friday afternoon by Tony. So please let me introduce you to Tony

So because of the restart of the blocks that has been taking up most of the time. But, I’ve made a couple of cards and of course done some tiles. So these are the cards I’ve done in the last few weeks: