Thanks for Your Help

I love
blogging friends.

I'm always learning something new

or being 

 reminded of  good "quilty" practices.

Here are two examples from last week

as I was binge sewing.

Thanks, Cheryl, who is at

So Many Quilts So Little Time 

for coining this expression.

The first reminder

came from Nancy at

Tattered Garden Quilting.

Nancy has been working on an applique

where the pattern labeled some pieces to be made blue.

Part way into it,  she decided
that she didn't want to use blue,
unsewed those pieces

and replaced them with something else.

That's a lot of work, but

it was good reminder to me.
A pattern isn't gospel.

This past week while I was binging,

I finally got out Di Ford's 

mystery quilt found in the Quiltmania Magazine.

These little diamond shapes have been bothering
me since I stitched them.

It was time to unsew and replace them.

They would have always bothered me.

Reminder: Change it if you don't like something.

Another reminder came from

Hilda at

Every Stitch

She's been working on a medallion quilt

and shared that she was working some

of her borders slightly out of order

so that the applique placement would be easier.

Suddenly a light blub went on

The applique placement is so tight and exact
on this mystery quilt

that I knew when I sewed the next border on

I would sew some of the applique into 

the seam allowances.

Hilda's work reminded me that

 by waiting to to add the applique pieces
until the next border was sewn on
I was setting the boundaries for the applique.

I'd like to announce:
"There have been no applique pieces
lost or injured
during the sewing of this border".

Reminder: Figure out the best way for you
 and just do it.

Thanks, blogging friends
for making my stitching better and better.

Until Next Time-