I started this quilt in January 2018. The block is called Square in a Square from Missouri Star. I got the top pieced and set it aside until I decided on backing fabric. Unfortunately, I shattered my ankle last June, had surgery to fix it, then spent the rest of the year learning how to walk again. And when they tell you it'll take a year to fully recover, believe them--it takes a year!
I pieced the backing last fall, but it was bigger than my work space so again I set it aside. But this year seems to be it--I moved the furniture aside, ironed the backing, batting & top, spray basted them together and now have a ready-to-quilt project sitting on the table. Ready to quilt. For a week! I'm being a big chicken, I know, but I can't seem to start it. Its so big it intimidates me.
So what's the best way to get moving? Impose a deadline! I signed myself, and this quilt, up for the Elm Street Quilt's "One Monthly Goal" for June. That gives me until June 30 to finish it.
Will I finish it in time? More importantly, will I start it early enough to finish? I have never missed a 'One Monthly Goal' goal, so I'm betting on me to get it started & done.
My quilting design was going to be a free-style horizontal wave, but the bulk of the quilt worries me: will I be able to maintain the same design throughout? I think if I draw some guidelines every 12 inches or so, I will be able to break it up into smaller areas. That should work.
So now it will be unrolled, smoothed out and marked. Then readied for quilting again.
Wish me luck!
My quilting design was going to be a free-style horizontal wave, but the bulk of the quilt worries me: will I be able to maintain the same design throughout? I think if I draw some guidelines every 12 inches or so, I will be able to break it up into smaller areas. That should work.
So now it will be unrolled, smoothed out and marked. Then readied for quilting again.
Wish me luck!