I don't know, y'all, about going from 5 to 18 if total drudge has set in.
When my enthusiasm for a quilt block is gone, it is just gone. Period.
Anything after that is pure misery. Quilting is not supposed to be
persecution.
Wonder how it would look to put those five in a long row right down the
center of the quilt and continue on with something else? Polly

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
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Now you know how I feel about these whirligigs - all 120 or so of them!.
Gird those loins, give it all you've got and keep on going....now to
remind
myself to do the same!

--
Sharon From Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html

"the black rose" wrote in message
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Making a quilt for my youngest son, it's a whooooooooole lotta 15"
mariner's compasses, I've gotta pic of one at
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...43983978WWVbdx . My
original plan was to applique them into 16.5" squares, and set the
squares on point, 4 rows of 3 alternating with 3 rows of 2 (which equals
18 compasses).

I've made 5, and now I'm bored. *Now* I realize I should have varied
the colors I used, but I wasn't thinking. This many compasses, that
many strips of this fabric, this many strips of that fabric, yada yada,
it's all pre-cut now (I was being efficient), and the strips are
different widths (1.5", 1.75", 2.25") so I can't just mix and match.

Do I struggle through the rest of the 18 compasses, or do I throw
caution to the winds (and the precut strips into my scrap stash) and
improvise? Five compasses is enough to do *something* with.... just
make some nice wide borders or something, or maybe take some of the
strips and make some other kind of block to set with the compasses.

Or I *could* gird my loins, grit my teeth, turn on the TV and just keep
sewing. And it'll be an awesome quilt if I do.

*sigh* Decisions, decisions....

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the black rose, wench with a wrench
proud to be owned by a yorkie
http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts