TIME TO PANIC!
Is anything scary than the first cuts you make into the fabric for a new quilt? I have a design in my head, based very loosely on the drunkard’s path. VERY loosely.
I want to use all blues for all the pieces, of which there are a lot—lots and lots of semi-circles and the other parts–except for three. These three semi circles will be red. This requires a lot of juggling – which blue goes where? And a lot of moving things around on my design wall.
I believe I have the basic blocks all figured out and have pieced them.
I forgot that I’ve never pieced in semi-circles before. It is very different from piecing in quarter circles. I have had to redo every damn one of them. Because I don’t want ANY gathers. But they ALL gathered at one place or another. ARGH!
Now it’s time for blind panic because the blocks aren’t right. They just aren’t right.
But happily I remember this is almost always true of my basic blocks. Why I can’t remember this before I panic is a question I often ask. I always panic at several stages of each quilt. Would that I could remember from quilt to quilt when these panic stages hit! But alas, I never do.
The blocks are too large because I always make the blocks too large and then I cut them down to the size I want and to be uniform. More or less. Give or take. Mostly take.
I am headed to the cutting board with a thousand (okay it only seems that way) blocks to cut smaller. And then I shall be happy again. Until I panic again.