A month or two ago I discovered a wonderful blog called “Spirit Cloth.” Not only do I think Jude creates beautiful things, but I love the questions she asks, I love the thoughts behind what she’s creating. When I read yesterday that she was broadening the theme of a challenge that she’s been doing (“What iffing”), I decided I really wanted to participate.
One of the things that I struggle with is that I often have so many ideas of things I want to make and do. Sometimes I get bogged down in my ideas. I’m hoping that the “What if” challenge will give me a little structure to push forward. What if I spent a couple hours each week just playing with the fabric stash? What would I create? Where would it take me?
Yesterday I sat down and started a list of “What ifs.” I doubt I’ll be exploring something that has never been explored with fabric, but I think we all need to make our own journeys. And if we follow our own train of thought, even when we use the same techniques, we ended up in a different destination.
Here’s a beginning list of questions that I have:
- What if I played with my fabric more?
- What if I made my own fabric?
- What if I found away to use fabrics I don’t like as much?
- What if I only used reclaimed fabric or sustainable fabric?
- What if I used fabric pieced or embellished by me for clothing?
- What if I chopped up old quilts?
- What if I combined old (traditional) and new techniques?
- What if I only hand sewed a piece?
- What if no scrap was too small?
- What if I mixed different textures and weights of fabric?
- What if heirloom fabrics stopped being “precious” and were used?
My goal is to post at least once a week a response to "What if...?" I already have one done and will share tomorrow.