Not your grandmother's sawtooth star....

Here are some pictures of my first project for my Color Play group which met this evening. To explain the process behind this project, my thinking, my second guessing, my changing my mind…well, it would be extremely scary. I don’t know how Kaffe Fassett does it! I laughed out loud when I read Aneela’s blog this morning (comfortstitching), because she said she doesn’t like batiks. Well, they are not my favorite either, but I had so much trouble finding true violet colors (part of my assignment) and then lighter versions (need those value changes), that I grabbed two batiks up without thinking twice. Ah, desperation!

And I got a fun package the other day from Rusty Crow Quilt Shop.com in Elfin Forest, California (I only mention the location because the name, Elfin Forest, struck my fancy). It was this lovely sampler fabric (by Moda) that I saw on Gwendie’s blog. I love samplers and have a long history of counted thread embroidery, so I just had to have it. I photographed it next to an antique sampler that my husband bought me for a wedding gift. Twenty-four years later, and he’s still a keeper!

With wishes, true and kind -- Joan