Is Ironing Randy's Shirts Being Creative?

I figured this would be another day given over to Making a Life. Randy is leaving for 2 months tomorrow, so I'm busy helping him get ready. Which, at the moment, means doing laundry and ironing his shirts. (Meanwhile, he's outside weeding, so it's really not a bad trade off.) The doors are supposed to arrive later today. And I need to visit one of my pet-sitting clients for a few minutes after lunch. Tonight is my quilt guild's regular meeting. Last night I nearly finished putting the border on a new quilt top. And part of the ironing this morning consists of some new batiks and Japanese indigos, so I guess there is some creativity going on here today.

Here's one of my very favorite quilts. I started it in 1997 when I took my first quilting workshop. Which was with Alex Anderson when she was heavy into her Star Period. Thanks to Alex, I learned to make really accurate stars very early in my quilting life. This quilt epitomizes what I love to make best in the way of quilts. It's a modern, very scrappy, take on a traditional pattern. In this case, a group of patterns. Since it was one of the first quilts I started (finished in 2001), it is VERY scrappy! I didn't have much of a fabric stash at that point. (New quilting fabric is expensive!) So I was haunting garage sales, rummage sales, you name it, for scraps and old shirts to deconstruct for the stash. Consequently this quilt has everything in it, including drapery samples, new flour sacks, and those dreaded cotton-poly blends. The "focus fabric" is the striped border, a vintage fabric that makes my heart sing.