Nov 1, 2009

It just keeps getting better...

There is a tad bit of sarcasim when I say that.  Well, as I was arranging my blocks and started to sew the rows,  I noticed that some of the colored blocks looked a smidge smaller than the solid blocks.  But I kept sewing.  When I started to sew the rows together...just out of curiousity, I measured some of the smaller blocks - they were approx. this much off, my thumb & pointy finger are touching!  Needless to say, as I was sewing the rows together, at the same time I was redoing sections of the row so they would line up.  I'm done with the center and am pretty much happy with how it turned out.  There are a couple of squares that are not matching up but I got over it.  The inner border is a saw tooth border and it's not speaking to me (not really my style).  But have you seen Kelly's?  - it looks beautiful!  So I still have some time to figure out how I want my border to look like.  This is going to be a wall hanging so I really don't want to have a big border.  I'm just hoping I don't hit anymore speed bumps with this quilt.

 

3 comments:

  1. That is beautiful Michelle.. I think it turned out very well and whatever snags you encountered you fixed them up very very well because they sure aren't noticeable from here.

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  2. It is lovely, and you will appreciate it all the more for all the sweat equity you put into it. You didn't give up and will have a great quilt to show for it. Good on you!

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  3. I love this! Michelle, this is a very happy quilt, and I think when you're done it's going to be like childbirth - you'll admire the finished product and forget the pain!

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