Challenge Project Update

 

I have lost count of the changes through

editing, unstitching, and do-overs,

but here is where things stand now

with Pandemonium.

More photos and details on my blog HERE.

Quiltdivajulie

Forty-Six - the Flimsy

And then, 

after all of the machine appliqué was completed,

 there was a flimsy on the design wall.

(no fusible was used - 

just lots of pins to hold the shapes in place)

I'm very pleased with the string pieced tulips

and the way they sway back and forth.

Their consistent stems

and pairs of scrappy leaves make me happy.

* * *

The top finished at approximately 48" x 60"

Quilting will happen later this year.

Quiltdivajulie

One Block at a Time

 

One stem at a time.

One leaf at a time.

Machine appliqué work is underway

for my current AHIQ challenge named Forty-Six.

When the green bobbin ran out,

I changed to the purple bobbin/thread

and started on the tulips.

I'll need to switch back and finish

the rest of the stems and leaves

before I can complete those tulips,

but at least I can now see

how some of the blocks will look.

Onward . . . 

Quiltdivajulie

FORTY-SIX - an Update

You might be wondering why this photo

 of Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop is leading this post.

They popularized a song - 

one that our boys learned in Scouts

and still sing fragments of today.

Maybe you know this one?

". . . This is the song that never ends.

It just goes on and on, my friend.

Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was.

And, they'll continue singing it forever, just because

This is the song that never ends . . . "

(you can hear the melody by clicking HERE

if you don't already know it)

The words of that song pretty much sum up the way 

the current AHIQ challenge has affected me.

It would have been so simple to follow

Ann's how-to posts and make a quilt like hers - 

but "oh, noooooooo."

I wanted to make one of my own design.

Three months later and the words

of that song keep running through my head.

 

I know full well that I'm trying too hard

and have fallen far into the dreaded comparison trap.

I NEED to stop pondering, 

DO something,

and quit worrying whether or not

my SOMEthing is the PERFECT thing.

I'm sure many of you have been in this same spot . . .

So THIS is what I am doing . . .

I'm narrowing up the bias-cut stem strips 

because they were just too clunky-looking.

There are twenty tulip blossoms so I've chosen

twenty different greens for the leaf pairs.

I've added one of Marilee's numbered pins

to the center of each tulip so that

when I take the blocks down to machine appliqué,

the current layout won't be lost.

Amazing what happens when you quit

trying to make a masterpiece and just MAKE.

Quiltdivajulie