Curvy quilts

I've just finished teaching a quilting class (did I mention that I quilt?) called Show Off Your Curves. It's my own "invention", in that curved elements aren't set into square blocks, but rather are featured in their own curvy wonderful ways. It all came about because of the quilt to the right, which I called "Orbital". It won a quilt challenge and spurred a class, and many more ideas for quilts!

The quilt I'm creating now has manifested itself as an abstract lily pond. I made curved arcs in green and blue, and when I pieced them together and set them on the background fabric, I started seeing rings on the water of a lily pond.

The leaves lend themselves to an abstraction of water lilies, so I added flower and dragonfly appliques and then hatched another idea: koi pond! I'll add some koi fish, swimming over and under the leaves, as though the quilt is a snapshot of a koi pond, from a person's perspective of looking down into the water.

I've been knitting, too, as time allows, on the celtic braid purple sweater. It's going well, but building the body of the sweater takes time. I was so gung-ho on the first couple projects, and they went so fast, that now that I'm knitting just occasionally, this sweater's taking a while. Good thing I like the color, or it'd be going really sloooooooooowly!