A friend and I make quilts together to donate. Mostly to the foster care group here. But she's now in the Children's Hospital guild (Seattle hospital) and they need fun, bright quilts for teens who will be staying a long time. So her idea was we would make faces, 18" squares, that would be bright and funny. I got started and it was like paper dolls. It really suited the part of me that always made the faces green and the lips purple in coloring books and I grabbed out batiks and whipped up three really fun faces. (no, I can't post pics .....)
When I showed them to her yesterday she sort of gasped and grabbed my hand and took me straight to her friend who is also a professional artist (both of them are published, hung in galaries, etc) and they said I can't give these away and they have to be framed and put in shows and then they started talking about books and patterns and the like.
Then we went to our LQS and the owner wanted to know what pattern I used. When I told her it's mine, she explained what steps to take. Over the next YEAR. It involves a good more faces (wheee it's fun) and some quilt shows and writing down everything I think about and the process and then teaching some classes for the LQS and then they introduce me to the quilt book publishers they know. (And she doesn't really like me that much)
Whoof.
That's the sound of air leaving my stomach quickly. I just made fun faces.
So I'm going to try this, but it's a long term kind of thing. That's definitely not me. I have no staying power. I don't buy green bananas. I've been known to make a salad of seedlings because the lettuce was taking too long to grow.
The faces are a lot like my Red Riding Hood character. Matter of fact, she's going to be resurrected and I'm going to make her face big and pretty.
This all sounds weird I know and it sounds silly to me, but dang it would be good to do something that might result in me making a few dollars.
You guys think I can pull this off? You know me pretty well. I'm skittery and have the attention span of a .... what was I talking about ?????
Well, now I'm making a bright, happy strip quilt for the teens at the hospital and the faces are waiting for more friends to join them.
Sunny Anyway,