Keeping a File for Each Piece

I start a file when I start each quilt. It usually contains notes on what I may want to contain in each quilt. I also write notes on the feeling I want to convey. It doesn’t mean that every thing makes it in the final piece, but it helps give me a direction to start and keep going. I then begin to collect photos that I may use in the piece. These are all put into a folder/ file that I keep with the piece as I work on it.

I wanted to portray time passing by in this piece and do it in what I’m calling a light cubism sort of way. Its by no means true cubism or even abstract, but it is in the way that the objects are broken up and reassembled.

Some things added to the file.

The finished piece.