Dumpster Diving 5 - Major Progress

This was the initial fabric sort for

what will become my fifth Dumpster Diving quilt.

(you can see the others HERE)

The floral fabric will be the quilt's backing

and the stunning turquoise blender

will be the quilt's accent color.

After weeks of stitching short pieces

 of 1.5" wide fabrics from the scrap stash

 end to end (over and over) as leaders-enders,

I finally have workable lengths to test out my plan.

I didn't count or measure as I was working,

I just sewed and sewed and sewed.

And ironically when I stopped

and pressed the lengths, all three color groups

were within inches of each other.

This has been my working inspiration quilt.

Wendy Hook's “Backward Log Cabin” (2018)

Hand dyed and commercial cotton. 

Machine quilted.    40” x 60” 

Tuesday evening I started stitching . . . and

I was delighted to see that my plan just might work.

Then on Wednesday I chanced across this image.

Designed by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr

of Modern Quilt Studio,

FRAMED appears in Modern Quilts Illustrated #13.

And my brain took off in an entirely new direction.

A few hours later with the help of an Excel spreadsheet

I now have an updated working design for 

Dumpster Diving 5 aka Catharsis.

DD5 may not be a finished top in time for 

my Dumpster Diving workshop with members of 

Scrap Club hosted by Kevin the Quilter

on March 1st, but I will definitely 

have a terrific work-in-progress to share.

(and from a teaching standpoint,

that may actually be a good thing)

Quiltdivajulie

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Catharsis (noun):  The purging or release of emotional tensions, especially through kind of art or music.