Creativity Today?

I have not gotten a creative project together yet and I'm starting to get a bit disgusted with myself. 

Note to self: I AM going to at least get out a sketchbook today and jot down a few ideas. (hopefully I can find one that I didn't pack)

SideStory: Mom passed away in 2015 and I still have all her clothes. That sounds rather extreme but she had very little in the way of clothes. 

She lived in a very small house which was actually the carriage house on the back of my property at the time. Well it wasn't a house when we moved there, the people before us used it as a garage and the people before them used it as part of their business where they made old time carriages. Kerns Carriage Works.  Some interesting info here too.

Not long after we moved into the old victorian we decided to convert the carriage house to Moms "Little House". She definitely wanted her own place but also to be near me and my girls and this was a great solution. (little did we know she would live there for 30 years!) 

I have wanted to make a memory something with them and it's been HAUNTING me lately so that is the creative project I will work on. It's not going to be easy as her clothing is mostly all synthetics and tee shirt fabrics. 

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The Memory Quilt Begins

I started! I'm jotting down ideas in a sketchbook. I'm using Jude Hill's "What If" and enjoying the process. 

Asking myself:

What fabric/cloth could I use for stability, so something to attach the synthetic and stretchy tee shirt clothing to. At this moment I'm thinking I might cut out manageable squares from a lightweight muslin and then stitch the memory pieces on to that... OR I could make bases somehow and then in a collage sort of way stitch the shapes down. Fold under raw edges or leave them? I guess I'll have to be IN the mode when I decide that. They might fray terribly leaving me no choice. 

Placement of pieces, what shapes would be fun to use, etc.  

Last thing would be to connect all the squares. Each one could be different depending on my mood. ? But honestly I don't want to think this far ahead. I would love to see this evolve slowly but I also don't want it to take me forever. I've already had the clothing for many years.