Back to the drawing board -

So it was back to the drawing board -
To think about the border -
On my Floral Applique -

And I came up with a few options -
With a little help from my friends - ;))

Plan A - Do nothing - and forget what I saw -
KatieM said that once I stitched them the lights might disappear -
And become leaves again -

And -

Patrica said that the quilting might make me unsee the lights -
If I just made the quilting leaves -

But I don't think I can UNSEE the Christmas lights now -
It's been on the wall for a while -
And I still see them -

Plan B - Switch them all out for various shades of Green -
Like Angie said - they would look more like leaves if they were all green -
And Lori suggested making them lighter green -

Plan C - Change their size and/or shape -
There again - try to make them look more like leaves -
And maybe the scale is off a bit -

Plan D - Take them all off and have "vine" only -
Sometimes less is more -
And maybe the leaves are distracting -

Or -

Plan E - Play with something else -
It's not like I don't have choices - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -

BOB's Tuesday Toast - 6/25/13

Here’s to Pattern Writers -
Who don’t furnish the FINISHED size of BASIC UNITS needed -

May they realize that there are different ways to make UNITS -
And that I may prefer another way - ;))

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Patterns normally provide the FINISHED size of the QUILT -

And the FINISHED size of the BLOCK -

Which is GREAT - ;))

But sometimes the blocks include BASIC UNITS -

Such as HST -

QST -

4-Patches -

And Flying Geese -

And some pattern writers do not provide -

The FINISHED size of THOSE units -

And I REALLY wish that they would - ;))

I think that patterns with cutting diagrams are great -

IF I want to make it that way - ;))

But I also have some dies -

And Thangles(TM) -

And Triangulations(TM) -

And other tricks -

That I could/would USE -

If I knew the FINISHED size of the BASIC UNITS I needed -

To make the quilt - ;))

Lucky for me -

I can do the MATH -

And figure it out -

But it would be nice -

If the pattern writer provided the information -

So that I could spend my time -

SEWING instead - ;))



But then again - it’s probably just me - ;))