Window into Chakra Energy

I went to a quilter's retreat a few months ago, for the Seattle guild, Quilters Anonymous. There were probably 50 or 60 of us there, with our many fabulous projects and fabric. There were yard sale tables with good bargains, a large vendor display by Island Batiks, free boxes of fabrics and threads, and even garbage cans full of amazing scraps. Since I don't have nearly enough pieces of fabric in my collection, I was on the look out for treasures. I found pieces of Kaffe Fassett and Tula Pink projects and was thrilled. After the holidays I wanted to make a new quilt, and pulled out the bag of fabric. I trimmed the strips into 3 inch squares and made 4 square blocks. I auditioned sashing with complementary color in mind. Nothing was right. So I decided on a Freddy Moran idea, and used black polka dot strips, also Kaffe with scattered flowers amongst the dots. The outside sash was narrow, and it needed a border. I draped it over the loft rail on top of a January quilt I love for it's black and white, and soft pastels, Hashtag, gifted from my pal Cathy P of gefiltequilt.blogspot.com .

I loved the striped diagonal borders on hashtag. So I worked to recreate that with strips I already had. I sewed the strips, pressed, then cut into 5 inch blocks. To achieve the diagonal lines I cut the blocks in half diagonally and then sewed the triangles together. Cathy's idea was evolving into my new border. I liked the look. It still needed a frame, so I used more of the Kaffe and Tula scraps and made a striped border in the wild colors.

The title came from recent journaling and affirmations about creativity, which is a quality of the throat chakra along with self expression and communication. The throat chakra is pictured blue. I have no idea what will happen with this quilt. It is 28" x 53" the size of a table runner or bed runner. The purpose is irrelevant at this point, it just asked to be created.