Study The Masters

February 21, 2020 thecraftsessions

This quilt for my daughter was made based on a beautiful Folk Fibers quilt. I’ll talk a bit more about it below.

As I get even more conscious and mindful about decreasing the resources I use - which means increasing the percentage of scrap projects I engage with - study has been essential to me learning to make the things that I want to make in a way that makes my heart sing. Because scrap projects, while fun, are not something I find easy to engage with.

Scrap projects are all about getting our materials - the textures and the colours - to work together in a cohesive, and hopefully beautiful, way….

The Tension Of Embracing Good Enough

February 14, 2020 thecraftsessions

So much of life is tension. Tension between the things we think we want in the moment, and what will fulfill us in the longer term. Tension between competing values that are incongruent, but feel equally important. Like freedom and discipline; two ideas that I struggle with on an ongoing basis. Or as in the case in this post, between the perfect thing and good enough.