{"id":1468,"date":"2011-02-21T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/sometimes-nothing-works\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:01:21","slug":"sometimes-nothing-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/sometimes-nothing-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes nothing works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">During the class I took in Phoenix last month, I drew out the designs for two wholecloth quilts. One of them must be redone, due to slithering problems, but the other (smaller) one is fine, so I began quilting it a few days ago. I quilted all of the main motifs and then added some cross hatching around the central wreath. So far, so good.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Then I decided to do pebbles as the filler around the corner motifs; pebbles are one of my favorite fillers. After doing half of one section, about 10-15 minutes&#8217; work, I decided that this just wasn&#8217;t going to look right this time. Okay, so I spent the next three hours unpicking that mistake.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I really don&#8217;t want to do a &#8220;traditional&#8221; stipple, so the next thing I tried was echo quilting around those corner motifs. It was looking pretty good until I realized something. The instructor for the class had required us to use the standard blue markers when doing our drawings \u2014 not the fine line type. So when I removed some of the blue lines to see how things were looking, I realized that the corner motifs were completely lost in the echo quilting! Ack!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Last night I began unpicking those echoing lines, and I&#8217;m only about halfway done now. I may decide not to do a filler at all at this rate!&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the class I took in Phoenix last month, I drew out the designs for two wholecloth quilts. One of them must be redone, due to slithering problems, but the other (smaller) one is fine, so I began quilting it a few days ago. I quilted all of the main motifs and then added some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[48],"class_list":{"0":"post-1468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-free-motion","7":"tag-freemotion","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5523,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/12\/04\/experiment-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1468,"position":0},"title":"Experiment","author":"Sandy","date":"December 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Several days ago I saw an email that piqued my interest. 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