About a year and a half ago I took an art quilt class with
my local guild. One exercise was to create a picture with 3 of the same item in
it.
I was using scraps of
fusible fabric and I found a shape that looked like a tree and thought that was
a great shape. I cut out two more and
fused it to the background fabric. But
when it came time to finish out the picture, I was stuck. It was a great shape but I didn’t know what
to do with it other than make them look like Christmas trees. I didn’t want that.
So I took it to my small quilting group meeting and asked
for advice. They gave me the best advice
ever: “Turn the picture 90 degrees”
When I did that, my three tree shapes took on the look of
three stylized fish. I am now in love
again with these three shapes.
I did the same thing with a challenge block from 2017. I love the heart icon and use it whenever I
can. So when I did a challenge block
with the theme “Home is Where the Heart is”, I knew I had to use a heart.
But how do you make a
home in the shape of a heart. Well, you
turn it upside down.
Which is exactly what I did and what is more I made it into
a traveling home as in an RV.
Sometimes when you need a different look or what you are
working on doesn’t quite look the way you want it to, turn it another way; look
at it from a different perspective. Even if you don’t complete the project in
the different perspective position, just turning it might give you the
inspiration you need to finish it or become inspired. Not all trees need to remain as trees and not
all hearts have to be right side up.
©2020 Cheryl Fillion
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