What a mess we have here....
After some thought and also consultation with friends, I've decided to use large sunburst pieces to fill out the corners of the Lone Star quilt. Trying not to regret this decision...
I drew up a sunburst block in Electric Quilt, printed it out, and took my drawing to a nearby office supply store, where they cheerfully made me gigantic blowups and charged me a small fortune for them. (I miss my access to free printing at the library...)
So--financially, I am pretty much committed.
For a couple weeks I procrastinated beginning the sewing. Finally buckled myself down at the sewing machine and managed to make two sunbursts, which equal one corner, in four long hours of sewing. There was a fair amount of ripping and re-sewing, as well as some spitting out of bad words through clenched teeth.
I'm here to tell you that paper piecing on this large scale is even less fun than paper piecing on a small scale. Who knew? This project is looking like it definitely falls in the deadly category--it calls into play some conceptualizing skills that haven't been used in a long, long time. If ever.
Not to mention that it eats up a lot of fabric.
Here's how one sunburst looks so far, untrimmed and butting up against a corner of the quilt.
12 comments:
It will certainly be STUNNING...even more than it already is! Love the fabrics...so much. You're much more industrious than I! I detest paper piecing and probably would have just found a coordinating fabric for the corners and called it. But then I don't make amazingly STUNNING quilts like yours! ;o)
i like it!! worth pushing on
Wowzer! That is going to be a killer quilt! Push on, push on!
Definitely worth continuing; a brilliant solution to the setting problem. Well done!
Stunning! You can do it. Enter it in a show when it's done.
YES! you can do it! keep going!
from the peek at it, the answer is YES! wow, what an amazing bunch o work. love the fabrics!
Well, though there may be difficulties I think it is worth the expense and time. It looks terrific!
An excellent choice.
Kathie - it is going to be fantastic. All the snarly hours and comments are well worth it. Your conceptualizing efforts are giving this quilt a wonderful finish!
sue
What a labor of love...and perserverence. FYI...I get enlargements done at Badger Blueprint in Waukesha very resonably.
It looks amazing, so yes. Definitely wort it.
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