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They say done is beautiful.
But sometimes finished is fugly:
I know it looks alright from there, even cute, but this is utterly fugly, and if I was a cat -let alone a baby- I’d know better than to have a snooze on this.
There aren’t two squares the same size, there are bunches at the back, the sides are wonky and the stitching is horrendous.
But in fairness, this time last year I would never have imagined I’d be attempting something like this, let alone finishing it.
In fact, old me would have left this as a UFO and binned it in a few years’ time, when packing for the next house move.
Extant me ploughed through this to the finish knowing full well it wouldn’t be good enough.
It’s my good old Sewing The Void dilemma – when do you give up?
Too soon? Too late? Ten minutes from base camp?
I am very grateful for the encouragement everyone has given this (my work colleagues have a PhD in feigning interest and I love them for it), in particular to the person who described it as “a successful prototype”.
For now I am working on something simple while still cleaning the machine, since I had the great idea to put fleece at the back of this, and fleece is 85% fluff and 15% lint. Still, it worked well with my normal Teflon presser foot.
This quilt isn’t going anywhere, and once I have my mojo back I’ll decide what to do next.
It looks fine in the photo but if you’re not going to use it donate it to the animal shelter. I’ve never quilted before (gran and mum and aunts used to hand sew stuff like this back in the day) but I would strongly suggest (if you don’t already) using a gridded cutting board and rotary cutter for the cutting part (cut 4-6 layers at once) and clover iron on tape to glue bits together before sewing. Works with clothes, should work with quilts XD
The saddest part is: this was cut using a rotary cutter and a mat. I am just wonky-eyed, I guess.
The tape is a great idea and I was at some point tempted by using glue, since everyone suggests it, although I don’t know how it wouldn’t gunk up the needle!
I will see if the animal shelter down the road would like it, I walk past it all the time but I’ve never been in lest I go home with everything (I suppose they wouldn’t let me) or just an insanely heavy heart iykwim.
No your eyes are fine, what you need is a rotary blade ruler (it’s a ruler with markings and a slot down the middle where your blade goes). The slot stops the blade from deviating and the wide part of the ruler holds everything in place-I use it for cutting bias and it’s great (except I went cheap and unknowingly got the non-Metric version but it’s ok I marked Metric measurements on it in Sharpie XD).
Like this? Now that looks like the business! http://www.sewessential.co.uk/largeimage.asp?ProductID=CL57-924&ProductName=Clover%20Bias%20Tape%20Cutting%20Rule.%20Metric