So sooner or later something I was working on would appear somewhere else. And it happened this week. I had a commission to make a quilt to a design of mine for Love Patchwork & Quilting. I sent my idea off to Jenny a year and a half ago but it got lost in the myriad of things that cross an editors desk. About four moths or so ago she found it again and commissioned me to make a quilt based on it.
So I have been cutting and sewing to get back into the groove and make the deadline that was looming due the holiday interrupting the regular schedule. Then I woke up yesterday, thirty blocks made, sashing and cornerstones cut and ready to piece the top together. But I opened Instagram first and one of the first posts I saw was of a quilt to an almost identical design.
I immediately showed Jenny the post because why would LPQ want to publish such a similar pattern just a couple months after Make Modern? I totally get that.
No need to keep this a secret any more then.
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| Forgive the crappy evening light. The colours are actually much more vibrant than this. Made using Art Gallery Fabrics Imprint line. |
So, now I am temporarily (I hope) commission free and I'm playing with fabric. I'm also doing boring stuff like hoovering and cleaning the loos, but I try to pretend that isn't happening in my life. I do avoid housework reality as much as possible.
Susan
same but different as they say and both beautiful
ReplyDeletei'm reading your blog because I am avoiding housework
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear this, Susan! Both, your and hers are beautiful! I have avoided houseworks so well all the summer but last week had to start cleaning. Soo boring. And why it can't stay clean at leas few weeks? I'm off to sew - hope to finish soon my secret project. I hope you have something fun to sew! x Teje
ReplyDeleteBu**er! I'm pleased to say that I have very little housework to do at the moment as I did it all last week before you arrived! (I think, touch wood, that Archie's pre-winter coat moult is finally coming to an end..!)
ReplyDeleteHow disappointing! And doing housework really doesn't make up for that. Even so, I do hope you find time between your jobs to finish the quilt, you'll at least have a lovely quilt at the end of it.
ReplyDeleteAw bummer! That has happened before to me too! Jxo
ReplyDeleteOne way to avoid housework is to move. The unpacking of boxes takes priority over the loo any day. I like both quilts, and you are right, it is just bound to happen some of the time.
ReplyDeleteI find taking deliberate breaks from commissions is a healthy thing to do, I don't do it enough (though that's exactly what I've done this week!). Enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteEverything old is new again! The bee block design I(Stepping Stones) am receiving at the moment appeared in my Pinterest feed this morning from a four year old blogpost! The tutorial I am actually following comes from another blog, published earlier this year, supposedly designed on EQ7!!! So who knows when it really was first designed! What a bummer your original submission was lost..... Onwards to new things, I'm sure!
ReplyDeleteMan it sucks when that happens! You've got an awesome quilt though :) x
ReplyDeleteDid you get a kill fee, it a fee to "kill" the story/quilt, but recognizes that you put time and effort into it? You deserve that at least.
ReplyDeleteHave fun playing with fabric (even if the reason for the free time is a bit of a bummer)
ReplyDeleteI did housework today but was followed by a 4 year old boy with a squirty bottle and a cloth. Lets just say that the place really does look as if it was cleaned by a 4 year old. *sigh*... why do I bother?
Dang, that sucks about the pattern design. But hey, at least you know you had a brilliant idea. And as I always say, there is nothing new in quilting. It's all interpretation.
ReplyDeleteAvoiding housework is something I am also particularly good at :-)
ReplyDeleteBoth quilts are gorgeous, it's a bummer for you that yours didn't come out first. It's a lovely design and your a total smartie pants for coming up with it, obviously your design skills are pretty great - keep at it!
They do say great minds think alike but I imagine its a bummer all the same. Just had family to dinner so had to clean the place.
ReplyDeleteThey do say great minds think alike but I imagine its a bummer all the same. Just had family to dinner so had to clean the place.
ReplyDeleteI love your quilt and was going back through your blog posts to find the pattern and read that someone else had also had a very similar idea. Both of the quilts are fantastic and yet quite different even if the main idea is the same. and such integrity to just show the fact that someone else got their idea printed before you had a chance to do that. Thank you. I think this happens often as I have penciled out numerous pattern ideas and then found them already in print that I had never seen before. So Great Minds do often think alike as Ruth states above!
ReplyDeleteIt's a gorgeous quilt so glad you're finishing it.
ReplyDeleteThat was amazing.
ReplyDeleteI love yours.