I am nearly done cutting out the pieces of the quilt I committed to make for my daughter's school auction. One week ago, I showed the winner bidder a number of ideas for what I thought were all easy-ish quilts, and now almost a week later I have yet to finish one block of this monsterish "intermediate" quilt. Actually, yesterday I gave up on making the sample block because A) I could see that the colors were working without finishing it and B) I slapped the pieces together without really following directions and ended up having to rip everything apart several times. Since I'd already shown that my seams were too narrow and that it pays to follow directions (sigh) what was the point in continuing? I actually bought more material than I need, so I have lots of wiggle room in case something else goes wrong.
In the meantime, the monotony of tracing templates onto fabric and cutting them out is starting to get to my neck, my back and my mind. Calgon, take me away!!!! All that stands between me finishing up the last template shape is like 100 pieces (I'm sadly enough not exaggerating) and these 2 marking pencils that keep breaking when I sharpen them. Did you know it's really hard to find a good marking device for dark fabrics?? Me neither. I swear half the pencil has ended up in the trash after snapping off below the base of the pencil wood. It is not helping my mood. This project is going to make all the other quilts I do look like child's play in comparison. Hopefully it will be stunning. The recipient is not a sewer and I'm sure she'll be happy with the results. If I don't commit seppuku in the meantime, I'm sure I'll be proud of how it turned out and pleased that I was able to donate something meaningful to my daughter's school. Till then, back to the salt mines (bugger...)
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