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I might be in the minority here, and usually would vote for the wild side,
but in this case it really will be an awesome quilt with 18 of those! So IMO buckle down and finish them. Maybe you could do all the remaining compasses at once? Sew each step for all the blocks before moving to the next step? They'll be done in no time if you stop counting how many more you have left to do! Roberta in D "the black rose" wrote in message ... 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.... -- the black rose, wench with a wrench proud to be owned by a yorkie http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts |
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