Tomorrow May Be Too Late

I named this quilt Tomorrow May Be Too Late because I had pieces I made in a class with Karen Eckmeier that were just sitting there--for a couple of years, I think. I did not like the colors I had chosen; they just didn't inspire me (I'm not a big fan of brown). So, it was in the pile of "someday" projects.

I have a sign in my kitchen that says, in Norwegian, "Senere kan vaere forsent,Gjør det idag," which means, "Tomorrow may be  too late; do it today." At my age, I finally came to the realization that someday is here and I had better get busy.

So, I cut up the pieces I made in Karen's class (I seem to like cutting blocks up these days) and alternated them with blocks based on a method I learned in a Carol Taylor workshop. I inserted strips, though not as skinny as Carol's, in alternating plain blocks. The arrangement is supposed to represent a stream, or brook, with the Karen Eckmeier blocks being the rocks along the stream. There is some beading to add some sparkle to the "water."

This quilt was my entry in an exhibit a couple of years ago at the Garde Theater in New London, CT.