This shouldn’t be that hard! Instead of quilting, catching up on work, doing my taxes, or unpacking from last week’s trip, I just spent who knows how long trying to figure out how to make this page work the way I want it to . . . almost. I guess it’s a work in progress, just like my quilting!
Speaking of works in progress, here’s my first quilt top.
I made this with those 10 yards for $20 find on the day I decided to start quilting. It’s a pattern from great little book with great pics and a few beginner patterns, called Quilting Made Simple. Of course, it’s the most intricate pattern in the book, but I didn’t let it stop me. As I was piecing the top together, at every step I’d run into the next room and show Niels the strip or block or row I’d just completed … Again, he’s patient with me!
This is also the quilt that I spent hours pulling stitches out of when I wound up gathering the back together in my first attempt at quilting with my walking foot. . . Since then, I’ve been avoiding it. Ergh. But I think I’l be more willing to experiment with piecing together something interesting for the back when I return to this piece – some random offsets of black, red and white will really complement the front better than the flat yellow I picked out.