I have already from the get go lost any potential profits in my time. LOL!!!!! Still I am tickled to death to have the opportunity to be doing this. As usual my seam ripper and I spent alot of that time yesterday together un-doing some things along the way, alot of things along the way. lol. I can see where I've made mistakes and where I can improve along the way. I got so ticked off at myself for not being able to stipple this thing that by 4 I said a little prayer to please let me be able to do something/anything with this quilt because I had tried stippling first, two times. Then I said to heck with it and put on my regular foot and was just going to do some diagonal lines on it. Tried that twice and hated it so I took a little break and got mad that I couldn't do it the way I wanted to do this one so when I was done with my break it was do or die on the stippling. This is what I ended up with. It was the prayer I know it was. I tend to have to get angry with myself before I can do certain things right or to my own expectations and this was one of them. I think the anger worked fairly well for me. I am pleased and I know Cindy will be tickled. She knew going in this was a first and I do my best at my pace so she's totally let me go with this. Bless her heart. lol.
Hubby just looked at it as I was taking the photo's and he asked if I was doing the whole quilt that way. He scared me. It could take me months at this pace. lol. I did start to thinking of maybe only doing this every couple blocks lengthwise and then do the same widthwise and it would save me a little time. What do you guys think about that idea? Oh, and a great big thank you to those of you who responded to how long it may take me to do this quilt. I have far surpassed Kris' time of 5 hours on a twin size. lol. I just wanted to be sure and thank everyone for the ideas and info.
Gonna get back at it. Have a great Sunday!! Take care.
Happy Stitching,
Renee
2 comments:
Just keep at it, and remember, finished is better than perfect. That philosophy has saved me lots of grief. And usually a quilt that I thought looked horrible actually looked just fine when I went back a day or so later to look at it again.
You are doing FANTASTIC! Remember - finished is better than perfect! I find I never roll and clamp my quilts - I just let them bunch up around me - I get too stressed trying to keep it all rolled nice and neat. It looks really, really good. Try doing it in quarters (the top right corner) then flip your quilt and do the next top right corner so you don't have a lot of bulk in your machine. Good luck!
Kris
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