Back To The Drawing Board.

When you know it's right - it's right.

It's right for YOU.

It might not be right for anyone else, and it is crazy how people's opinions will fly suggesting all kinds of things that to you are NOT right, but are right to them.

This was my progress over the weekend on this quilt - and let me tell you  something.(and you may already know) 

Don't trust a computer diagram because what looks good on quilt software on the screen may NOT translate well into a real quilt.

Trial and error and seeing things in real time apply here, too.

I like this.  A lot.

I wanted the blue at the edge of the quilt - not the neutral, to emphasize the blue that is IN the quilt.

Half the quilt world things I should have turned those geese around with the flat part inward toward the inner border. I didn't like it that way.

Again - feel free to do that on your quilt, but this one is mine. if I put the blue edge of the geese against the inner border, that border disappears.

I thought I wanted to do this - and I spent a lot of time doing it:

I don't like this. It's too heavy.

The blue edge of the geese DO disappear against the blue border.  The inside of the quilt is overshadowed by the border.

I looked and looed and looked at it and knew it was all wrong.

So last night I sat with Jack the Seam Ripper and  spent my evening unsewing.

The blue border can be used elsewhere.  But it had to come off.

And another something - If your seam ripper is ages-old and is not easily slicing the thread, it is more of a hinderance than a help.  Retire it and get a new one with a sharp blade in the curve.

It only took a couple of hours - And once it was off, I felt so much better.

We don't have to live with our mistakes simply because we spent a long time making them, or we fear it will take a long time to correct them.

We are back to square one.

The lucky stars part of this job?  the seam allowance was pressed toward the outer blue border so I didn't have to repress and possibly distort the geese at the edge.

I'm thinking I'm going to do a second row of geese.  These geese only make a 2'' border and that doesn't seem to be enough, but the solid blue border was too much.

More geese in my future.  But I'll have a happier finish the way I envision it.

And a gentle reminder to folks who jump in with what they think are better solutions - but are only their own opinions of what they would do:  Thank you, but I've got this!

I've also got this. Sigh.

There is more cutting ahead before I clean this up - but I'll get there.

I need to hang that "Fabric Addict" sign - maybe today?

It's really a rainy yuck day today.  It's a good day for staying in and cutting more flying geese.  Maybe binging something on Netflix or listening to a podcast.

I feel confident in my new direction and I'm going with it!

Ivy says "Then why don't you quit yammering on about it and just DO IT!?"

Okay then.  I'll be at the cutting table if anyone needs me for anything -

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

I do believe in this statement, or as the saying goes "As you sew, so shall you reap!"

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Or in quilting terms - so shall you rip!

Keep the good vibes going so the good vibes keep coming back.

Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!