A Paintbucket Quilt

I save scraps, fabric scraps. I save 2.5" and 5" squares; the strips are at least 5" wide by whatever. My really scrappy quilts I call Paintbucket Quilts because the strips get shoved into a 5 gallon paint bucket. One bucket for darks and one bucket for lights. When the bucket gets so full the lid won't stay on, I make a strippy quilt.

I told you that so I could talk about this. For several months, at least as long as my thumb (remember my owie?) was acting up, I didn't make anything. Not that I couldn't. I just didn't have the passion for it. I would go into my studio sit down, look around, get up and leave. This went on for months. I was in there the other day and sat down at the machine. Looking around I spyed my "darks" paintbucket. The dark strips were spilling out and the lid was perched precariously on top. I already had some Kabenet Wax paper strips cut for foundations. I started sewing. Mindless sewing. Process. That's what it took. Just mindless sewing. It was the process of sewing that I needed. Slowly, the spark of creativety kindled. Mindless sewing did it. I looked at some fabric in my stash and started to design quilts in my head. I'm ready to create something.

Oh, and the paintbucket quilt top? I finished it in 3 days. It's not a great, fancy quilt. It's more the dragaround type of quilt. But it served it's purpose: it got me in the studio again.