Roseville Album "Back in Business"

We all do it.

We put a project away temporarily

and suddenly we realize we've abandoned it completely.

That's what I did to my applique blocks
for the Roseville Album Quilt.

I really did know it was there.
I just didn't want to pull out tons of
fabric and start auditioning for the next blocks.

I hadn't been in the mood.

I needed to look at the blocks that were done,

look at the next 4 blocks,
and then make everything jell.

The nice part was I actually had
the freezer paper templates cut and
ready to be used.

After making the initial decisions
I needed to lay the pieces out and try and get

a sense of how the individual pieces will look together.

Then I needed to see how all 4 blocks looked.

Balanced?

It's not always easy to tell at this point, but
it does help to see them close together.

The hardest part is just getting started,

and in applique it's starting with the pieces that

are the furthest back in the scene.

In this case, it was the circle.

Which meant the stems needed to be placed too.

That's always the trickiest and most time consuming part for me.

Because if those aren't right the rest of the block 

will be off.

One block done.

Once I got back at it,

 it didn't take too long.

Until Next Time-