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Stick with me here. You’ll read the first few paragraphs here and wonder how in the world this is going to have a happy ending, but … it does. I promise.

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I have struggled to name this quilt, as well as to write about it. It goes without saying that 2011, thanks to Jeff’s accident, was … hell, let’s pick a few adjectives:

The quilting table is back in business, on a very different project than the one I just finished.  ‘Red shift’ contained a very limited color spectrum (crimson fading to black) and I’d hoped that my next project would be a bit more colorful and free-form.

I’ve gotten my wish.

The great thing about technoquilting:  it allows me to work with my fabrics on-screen, tweaking and fiddling with the arrangement and design until it feels right to me, and only then applying blade to fabric.  I’ve set 2009.1 aside for now, because the design isn’t right.  I know it isn’t right, and it would eat at me as I assembled it.

Since I’ve got a short time frame for 2009.2, I’ve switched over to it.

[‘Currently only a nebula,’ on flickr]