Depression, anxiety and quilting

This month has been overwhelming, to say the least. I have accomplished nothing in the way of ACTUAL quilting.

In my group of friends (and maybe others, I don't know), we talk about brain weasels - those pesky little things that crawl in and make holes in your brain and whisper all the nasty things about you. They are infernal, and hard to overcome sometimes.

So I have decided that I will put those suckers in a quilt. I have an extremely rough draft, but here we go.  The brain, appliqued, with all the folds and whatnots quilted in the a shade darker. Then, in clear thread (or maybe glow in the dark, since the weasels are harder to fight off in the dark), weasels quilted. So far I have only two sketches, but they will ideally be crawling over the brain, surrounding it, maybe gnawing on it. The border will have weasels slinking along. Because that's how it feels sometimes - I am surrounded by all the things from my past that I regret (even those that normally I forget about until the weasels dig them up), and I can't escape.

That's the most I can do right now. But I will take it. Maybe this will nail the little suckers down and keep them out of MY brain.

Clipper Ship

This is the next not-particularly geeky quilt we are working on: Clipper Ship.


The piecing is a very basic ship pattern. The quilting design itself is of a clipper ship flying before a storm with all sails out. It will provide a nice contrast between the piecing and the quilting. Once again, I have managed to hand myself a hand quilting project. I am not sure why I do this to myself.  :)

But the overall effect will hopefully be a good one. If it works, it will be the first in a series of 'ghost quilted' quilts. I have SO many ideas for this kind of quilting. Maybe too many. But we shall see.

There will be, if I get to everything, a folk art quilt (I have the pieced part done already), and a good many others.

I almost want to make a list of all the quilt plans I have, but it's a little scary.

 
 

Now what, brain??

I spend a LOT of my time thinking "Really? I don't need ANOTHER quilt idea!" But, of course, my brain doesn't listen to me. It hands me quilt ideas at terrible times.

Just now, my brain handed me this: "Hey, how about a wholecloth quilt in black with this?" And then showed me this:

This pic from Etsy.com, but you get the idea....
 

Now I want to do this. It's a shame I can't just spend my life quilting!!!