~ Making a test Block ~

I started out this year with a plan in place to design fewer quilts and write patterns for quilts I have already made.  My email inbox has a category for pattern requests from followers or a random person who has seen one of my quilts in an online search.  This plan would free up some time and allow me to learn more about the technical side of social media and to get out of my comfort zone and start doing events such as trunk shows or teaching.  This has turned out to be a hard plan to follow.  I'm a quilter!  Not a tech guru.  Time in the Studio is a must to keep my sanity.   It's a good thing I'm only accountable to me because my plan is already a couple months behind.   Since I feel a need to sew the next pattern release will be an older quilt but I'm reworking the design.  Redesigning means I get to sew!  All this pinned up sewing and quilting energy needs an outlet. It feels so good to let my instincts take control and create.

  

There's a lot of information that I could share here on the blog through words and pictures.  Since I'm crunching time everyday it seemed easier to make a video as I sewed the test block.  This video is totally unscripted and I'm flying by the seat of my pants.   So it's as real as you can get with some edits to help you understand what I was trying to get across.  

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