Taking My Own Advice

I was working this morning on the center panel of the next 'free pieced' quilt (this would be #13 and it seemed like it might be a bad luck number).  My former husband was in Japan recently on an extended trip and brought back a couple of packets of vintage kimono quilt pieces and i wanted to use these as the basis for the quilt (in the same general manner that I had used the maiwa squares), but it didn't seem to be working out.  this center panel is about 30 inches by 45 inches and has two additional 'borders'.

this afternoon, after a very unsatisfactory morning, i returned with the hope that i might be able to figure out what the problem seemed to be.  i figured it might help if i had a little more blue in it, to echo one of the 6 'focal' pieces.  but otherwise, nada.  and then i remembered the quotation and just let my idea go and trusted that whatever i had done would work, and i just started sewing it together.  by dinner time, i had pretty much finished the upper half and it did look like what i wanted.  may just look like chaos to anyone else, of course, but i was pretty pleased.  maybe tomorrow it will look all different. who knows?


judy