Class project

I’ve been AWOL for a time as I worked on an online class. I have a terrible time deciding how I want to do the quilting on my quilts, so I’ve just finished a design class that may help me overcome that. It was a class from Lisa Calle, from whom I’ve had other classes in the past (usually in person), and it was really good. For our class project I was supposed to make a 9-patch block from scraps in my stash, but my stash also had a preprinted 9-patch block (about 16″ square-ish), so I decided to use that. After all, if I messed up this printed block, no harm done, right? Now, though, I sort of wish I’d gone ahead and made the block, since the printed one wasn’t really square, but it’s too late now.

We spent most of the class designing what we wanted to do, drawing on layers of tracing paper over a printed photo of our blocks or, alternatively, using Procreate on the iPad. I do need to get more practice in Procreate, but it certainly has a lot of possibilities.

Today, though, I put the last stitches into my block! My Bernina had a major tension problem in the three outer corners, as you can probably tell from the thread color. But the tension setting is something that I’ll fiddle with another time.