Long-range project planning

 

... as in: eleven years!

 

Here's a kit I purchased in 2004,

which has been curing in its box ever since.

 

The project is a large appliqued  quilt, called

 Christmas Memories - A Christmas Quilt for Emily, 

designed long ago by Blackbird Designs. 

The original quilt featured a subdued palette,

even softer and more blendy than this example I recently found online. 

 

  Many years ago I discovered a place (no longer in business) that offered kits for this quilt in

bright vibrant alternative fabrics.

 

  I didn't have the skill at that time to even begin working on it, so it's been waiting for me. 

 For a long time.

 

We are going to be travelling on an extended road trip this fall, and an intense hand applique project will be just the thing for a take-along.

 

So now, finally, I'm absorbed with

 rearranging block placement, 

 

organizing backgrounds,

 

and prepping applique shapes. 

 

In a few more Christmases

it may finally become a quilt!

 

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