Tradition... Feh!!

I'm taking a class tomorrow with my quilt guild, and I've spent the last two afternoons being reminded of why I don't do traditional quilts. I've had to cut out a gazillion ditzy squares and rectangles and half-square triangles... all of this to provide fodder for the dubious joy of constructing the same block multiple times. My usual rebellious attitude kicked in early on in the process, but rebellious options were pretty minimal for this quilt. I took the only rebel route open to me and decided to mess with the color. This is supposed to be a two-color quilt... red or green or blue or pink or peuce or whatever, on a white background. All nice and pastel-y and civilized. In other words, boring. Instead, mine will be a five-color job... red, blue, green, yellow and purple on a black background.

So why am I taking this class if I find it so frightfully "not me?" Last year, the guild members (myself included) voted to have Linda Ballard, a professional teacher of some note, do a class with us. We were sent to her website to check out her many classes, and vote for the class of our choice. Of course, my choice was for one of her more artsy quilts, but, of course, I was out-numbered and a very traditional quilt was selected. Since I'd voted in favor of having Linda do a class in the first place, it would have been tacky of me to pull an attitude and refuse to take the class just because my choice didn't "win." So there you are.

Here are my ditzy squares, rectangles and half-square triangles...

By tomorrow evening some of this will have been re-ordered into the beginnings a somewhat untraditional traditional quilt. Stay tuned...