A little ruler work -

 

 

On this Red/White/Blue Panel - 

 

Proved to me that rulers really help to "stay on the line" - 

 

 

After doing as much as I could on the center square - 

 

I stitched around one little square on the left side - 

 

I used a ruler to outline the DARK BLUE sections -

And the RED star points - 

 

Then tried to "wing it" around the "feather points" -

And the center heart - 

And you can see it didn't work out as planned -

 

But - hey - that's what "practice" is all about - 

 

Now I know that if I'm going to "wing it" - 

I need to use a thread color that will blend in -  

To hide my boo-boos - LOL -

 

 

So after that little bit - 

 

I "re-hooped" it to play with the lower part of the center square - 

 

I have to outline the bottom square with the heart - 

 

And the two triangles on each side - 

 

Tomorrow I'll do that part - 

 

Then take it off the frame - 

 

To check the tension - 

 

And re-press it - since it has "fusible" batting - 

 

Then decide where I want to quilt next - 

 

"They" say to quilt it in "zones" - 

 

Starting in the top left corner - then to the right - 

 

Down one section - then the left side - then the right - 

 

And to continue on that way until you get to the end - 

 

But I think - with the "fusible" batting -

 

That I should be able to "skip around" - 

 

We'll see if that works out as planned - LOL - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -