Everything is about speed these days. Every TV contest really isn’t about the skill or talent of the contestants, be it baking, sewing, pottery painting. It’s all about speed. Which is a horrible metric by which to judge creativity.
So here I am, hand appliquéing, which takes time. Yes, I got impatient. So before I finished the center medallion, I already started folding back the border.
If you look closely on the right side, there still are a few pins. My basting stitches came loose. And yet, I want to see what this will look like. I will be honest, I’m not crazy about this design. I know, you take a class, you learn new techniques, but the outcome of that class will be rushed and not necessarily what you want.
The border complete, One thing I don’t really like here is that the border is made from the cut out fabric. So whereas the center has large bold areas, here things are thin and spindly.
I fiddled around with extra interfacing paper, so to get varying levels of those fingers. Here I am, getting ready to baste the border down.
Why am I having problems liking this? Is it the design? Is it the fabric. Or both?
Now I’ve finished the center and the border is actually going faster, probably because I don’t have to turn the top every which way to get into every nook and cranny.
Done! as I look at this I feel like the pattern needed some editing.
Looking behind the quilt, I’m enjoying my mosaic work, I really should do some more mosaic work!
Leah