A Village Quilter

I don't know about you but I can't believe it's already the last day in February. Where is the year going? So I thought it might be a good time to review some goals and stuff with you all.I have a lovely card from a very dear friend recently and she was kind enough to agree I could share her 'rules for the year': to stop writing things off so quickly to take 10 minutes everyday to benefit me to be outrageous to be creative to let people know how I feel to smile more And her motto is: If you don't like the way things are going, change the way you're thinking. I'm really impressed with these and I wholeheartedly agree wit the idea of if you don't like how things are - change something, take action. Otherwise they won't change. Have you got any goals or motto you try yo live by? This year I'm trying to spend time each day on my creativity, to look after myself ...

When I started my class at The Bramble Patch with Brenda Boardman she asked all of us to think about what we wanted to achieve from the classes, what our goals were. I’m rather bad at this as I don’t write goals well – so I never know if I got there or not. But anyway I did write the following goals: -More confident use of colour -Diverse use of different textiles -Develop techniques -Develop use of sketchbooks She then asked us to write what the reality of where we were now against these goals: -At the moment I play safe with colours and tend to use fabrics from within a manufactured range -I always use manufactured fabrics -I am open and willing to develop techniques -I’m not confident with putting pen to paper So that’s where I was – but where am I now? -I have used colours more confidently – for example with my Sunburst – very bright, red, yellow and orange. But I do still need to have more of a go with this – perhaps by making smaller pieces in different colour ranges I could dev...