Making progress

Every once in a while I have a Southern Comfort Manhattan in memory of my mother-in-law. The other day was one of those days where her memory was very present in my heart. Here’s to you Joy!

Now back to our regularly scheduled program…QUILTING!I’m continuing to work on “I feel enormous in your Lilliputian world” section by section with the great hope that I’ll have it finished Tuesday night as I leave bright and early Wednesday morning and would like to be able to deliver it on the other end.  The light from the sun and the 780 hit the thread on the left just right so it looks like it’s glowing.  As I stitched the nautilus pattern my eyes were drawn to the glowing. I guess I can call that section “glow worm”.

I decided to switch up the thread changing from Magnifico to Kimono Silk.  The look, feel and texture just work. I’m not sure if each color pictured will be used or if another color or three will be used.  I’m planning on repeating one section however I may have passed the point where the look I hope to achieve will work the way I see it in my head. This is one of the hazards of not planning ahead. It is something I can live with.

After I finished the “macaroni” section (after the nautilus section) I wanted to see the overall look and feel of the quilt. I like it, which is nice because there are moments where I don’t like what’s happening.  In those moments uncertainty will settle in with several options cropping up:
1) ditch the quilt
2) keep going and hope it all works out
3) get out the seam ripper
4) show the offending bit to friends privately or publicly and get some input
A side note on quilterly advice: it is there to help us weed out the choices in front of us.  There is no obligation to use the quilterly advice given.  The follow-through to that is when asked and I give advice there is no expectation on my part that you will follow the advice.  It’s your quilt. It’s your rules.

Someone asked me if I have “Superman” eyes with all this teeny tiny stitching I’m doing.  Uhm, nope, just bifocals.  At some point I will need to use a magnifier however at this point I’m just stitching and looking through the lower portion of my glasses.
As I show these last two pics I realize the section I want to repeat isn’t going to work visually the way I want it to.  Oh well these things happen.  I’m still happy with it.  I do know what I’m doing with the border once I’m out there, I’m stitching in the title of the piece and signing it.

I just read a great quote that I think is worth sharing:

“When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun, and fear is that annoying backseat driver” Brene Brown
Check out this post on A Quilters Heart.

Happy Quilting!

Teri