Gathering Together

Not just people, although I will enjoy the Teapot Quilters this afternoon, but also blocks. I'm a member of Contemporary Quilt, a Specialist group within The Quilters' Guild tending to Art. Without the courage to use that Big Word, however..
So, this year's Challenge theme is Fragmentation, which seems almost too easy for a cutter-up of fabrics like me. I thought of these lovely blocks, and I'm jigsawing them together. They are all different sizes, and need gently shaping and straightening and amalgamating into bigger blocks

Here's one in progress

These blocks are leftovers from one of my Moon series quilts - I made them in a fairly mindless way, from little bits of Japanese fabrics and hand-dyes, when I was desperately trying to distract myself from a very sick husband and a very very disrupted year. These were the excess having made the original quilt. I don't have a good shot of the original, but here's a detail

The Moon series are about the 13 full moons of the year, and are inspired by the traditional names and associations of these moons from many cultures. This one is February, and is called Shoulder To Shoulder Around The Fire - it's about using the last scraps of whatever you have to survive, sharing, and huddling together.. So, appropriate for this time of year. What has this got to do with Modern? Apart from the Improv, the use-it-up, and the inspiration, not much, but who cares?