Wednesday, March 29, 2017

I am so close to finishing up the blocks on my quilt that I’d like to keep pushing and get it done today but I’m losing my concentration so I think it is better to quit before I make a mistake.

I’ve been focusing so much on individual blocks that it has been awhile since I spread the whole quilt out. I’m impressed with most of the quilting (although I see lots of things I don’t like) but I’m less than impressed with the piecing. I’ve missed a number of points, and some of my seams don’t line up as well as they should.

It didn’t take me long this morning to finish the remainder of the two blocks and move on to the last two corners. As I finished up one of them and turned the quilt to get to the other I noticed that I had missed stitching a couple of lines on the two corners that were finished. I went back and looked at my guide and on the right-hand side of the block they show a quilting design but on the left-hand side they don’t. I guess in some places I was looking to the left side and some to the right so I’m going to have to go back and make sure the corners are all the same. Fortunately it means adding some quilting lines as opposed to having to remove some.

I also noticed that I missed a couple of spots where I need to add some meandering. I know as I was doing blocks I thought the meandering could be done at the same time as I was doing the meandering on the adjacent block. As it turns out I guess I forgot about it when I finally got to that adjacent block. The good news is that I should be able to finish the sewing up tomorrow.

Pat is just getting over a nasty cold and I’m a little afraid I might be getting it. I feel fine (except for wanting to take a nap) but I’ve been sneezing and blowing my nose all day.