Beginnings of Creative Play

 

 

A new project has been started in BAMQ by our new president, (friend Jaye) which she calls Creative Play. It was inspired by a comment in a newsletter earlier this year from Libs Elliot:

 " I have made a promise to myself that I will make time for creative play in 2026. Because, when work gets overwhelming, I find joy in taking even just a bit of time for myself to experiment and try something different without an end goal in mind."

There are two of these started off already, but this is the first one I've gotten my hands on. And I'm the first one to get add something, or do something to what's handed to me. There aren't a lot of rules, it's a very open and free chance to play and be creative. Above are the starting point blocks that Jaye made. 

I thought about just piecing them together, or maybe cutting them up somehow and piecing them back together, but that didn't strike me as the way I wanted to go. After looking at the blocks up on my design wall for several days, I realized that the blocks already had so much color and pattern happening, that the direction I should go was to add EVEN MORE. 

I was inspired by the open scraps box that was near my work table, all filled with leftovers from making my City Sampler quilt blocks. In it were quite a colorful collection of strips, either Tula Pink prints or my hand-dyes. I thought there was enough print happening already with that very strong red/white plaid. and the rainbow/black stripe (which I think is a Tula Pink print). So, I went with the more "reads as solid" hand-dyes, adding them onto to one or two side of each block. The strips of various widths will help break up the look of the bigger rectangles.

I can't wait to what the next person does with it (go Melinda!)