The inspiration for this was honestly the pack of fabric I found. I was drawn to color scheme and the leaves and pine cones. I could honestly take or leave the words/sayings, but I liked the rest of it to just kind of ignore them, to be honest. I knew I wanted to make a crystal-like shape as the main sewn part. I wanted to make it more detailed, but I just ended up not having enough time. I think I’m happy with the outcome, but as a creative person it will never be quite what I wanted. I’m sure you understand. Honestly, I was hoping to achieve a sense of calm? If that makes any sense. I felt calm looking at the colors and the subject matter of the fabric and I think we could all use some calm in our lives right now. I know I could.
I believe I enjoyed making this more than I enjoy the end result. The experience of making it and sewing was really relaxing and I wanted to immediately start making something for myself afterwards, to be honest. I may pick up some basic quilt patterns just to enjoy the feeling of my hands creating and doing something again. I ended up doing most of this within an evening I had free and it was nice to just put on a favorite YouTuber and go to town. It was really nice. I learned a lot from not just the experience of making this, but also from the history of things we learned like the Gees Bend quilters. Doing it myself put into perspective what a lot of those women were doing on the day to day and I respect them immensely for it. I could easily see myself keeping this up in my life.