Clueless Beauties

Many, many years ago--not long after I started quilting--I met my first New York Beauty block. I was fascinated! I found a book with a pattern in it, made some changes, and got busy assembling the blocks from autumn batiks and cotton texture prints. I knew exactly how I wanted to lay those blocks out and actually got a few sewn together before I had to put them all away. I was starting some sort of teaching course at the local university and knew full well that there would be no time to quilt for several months. So I neatly pinned the blocks to a flannel sheet, folded it, them tucked the bundle into a closet.

Years later I took the sheet out, unfolded it, and much to my dismay, the pinned pieces had come loose. They fell in all directions when I opened up the folded sheet.

So much time had passed that I couldn't remember how I originally wanted the blocks arranged. And since I had changed the pattern, there was no going back to the book to get some clues.''

On closer inspection, I also sadly noticed that my piecing skills on that project had much to be desired. Ugh!

At least I put all the pieces in a BOX before shoving them back into the closet.

Yesterday I took said box out of the closet, and things did 't look so bad.

 

 

There was still that mumble of blocks and pieces, but I think I can rework most of the inaccurate piecing. I still love all the colors. I am not sure how I originally intended to connect everything, but now that does not seem so important. It's okay to be clueless sometimes.

 

 

While I was ratting around in that box, I did figure out one thing--where I had put my autumn leaf batiks. I knew they were somewhere.