One of the hardest things about quilting I think is deciding what to put in the big open spaces – this can be especially hard if you do not pay attention to precise accurate piecing – like yours truly – me! I should know by now that it is easiest to redo a block right away instead of shrugging it off and putting it in the quilt when it isn’t completely square – I’m bad, what can I say. A lot of the little 1 inch squares in Star Crazy I find are not 1 inch!! That means putting a grid on the quilt to quilt really shouldn’t be done because it will make it more noticeable.
So I have been experimenting the last couple days and drawing things on the quilt, stand back and look at it, come back and look some more – then get it wet to get the blue marks off and try again when it is dry.
Right now this is what I have and I will be working around this in some way. I think I will carry the “stair step” type design out in the big open areas as it doesn’t rest directly next to the squares and therefore one hopes the unevenness of them won’t be as noticeable. I think I will do the next lines at about an inch out from the ones drawn and see how that looks.
Joseph’s Coat is coming along and got a bit pieced last night and again this morning at the weekly group -
65 degrees today!! are we sure it is winter?
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