Self-Confidence and the Buffalo

 Making a t-shirt quilt can be a pretty boring task, the word 'creativity' doesn't figure into it.

  The expectation is to cut up shirts and sew them together with borders and quilt it all down nicely. 

That's really hard for me to do because I am looking for the story in each shirt. If it's worn out 

that tells me it was an important shirt or if it's like new I know that shirt lived in a drawer. 

The tees for this quilt came from a father who wanted a 'surprise quilt' for his son, and the shirts were all over the place: nylon jerseys, heavy and light-weight tees, and collared shirts. It was a total jumble of fabrics and weights. There was no way on earth those random-sized and shaped pieces would make a normal block-type quilt.

Lucky for me, I taught middle school for years and know for a fact that there is NOTHING organized about young teens! So I deliberately skewed the tee shirts to resemble an explosion... 

It was expressive after all even when 

 I was losing my mind as things kept shifting and puckering.  I just decided to go with it because this quilt was full of life and needed to be wiggly!

I have fondly named this quilt the Buffalo because it weighed a ton and 

it was like wrestling a small animal to wrangle it under the needle of my domestic sewing machine.

 

The point of this whole blather is to say that when we listen to our heart

we find the right path in creativity, in life, in work, and in general. Just because we do something differently, doesn't mean we do it wrong or even better than someone else. It just means we believe in ourselves enough to have the confidence to be ourselves!