Getting caught up
I’ve been making pretty good progress on my quilts. Well, at least the two I’ve made for this project. The quilting part of any quilt is always the part that scares me. I guess it’s like staring at a blank canvas if you’re a painter or a blank computer screen if you’re a writer. So this time I actually sat down and sketched out (using PhotoShop) how I was going to quilt each quilt. It really did help me get over my anxiety. I even planned the quilting for a little flower one I had made quite a while ago. I am going to try this planning thing on all my quilts now! I’m just so brilliant – who ever thought of planning something out before you do it.
I have the second quilt quilted and I am calling it “Trapped in My Head” as it looks like the blocks are trapped. Well, that’s what came to me when I saw it quilted (and I guess the status of my head must figure into this also.) I even got the binding attached, although I truly suck at putting binding on by machine. I had to use a decorative stitch in order to catch the back of the binding and I still missed in spots. I might hand-sew the spots I missed and, then again, I might not.
