Don't you hate it when you get on a roll and keep sewing long past the point where you should have quit? I haven't worked on one of our quilts in several months but when I finally cleared the deck to finish the pattern and repetition quilt, I hauled out my work board (a piece of foam core that can stand next to my sewing machine so I don't have to get up and walk to the design wall) and found that it had a shape marked on it with yarn. Sure enough, it was 40 cm wide, so I figured it was left from the last time I worked on one of our series.
Then I started sewing, and figured I had to make enough to fill the space on the board. Got everything sewed together and decided I really liked the composition! Great! I can start quilting Monday morning!
At which point I went to the design wall, which also had a marked off space the right size for our project, but it had been hidden by a larger quilt pinned up. When I took down the big quilt to reveal the space, and went to pin the new top up, I realized that oops, I had made the quilt way too long. Notice the quilt pinned up at the left, which was our large/small challenge. Notice the space on the wall marked off with selvages.
I really like the bottom of the quilt, the way the small squarish pieces at the top elongated into much bigger rectangles, making it a lot airier. I hate to lose this part because that was my experiment -- the rest was the same design I have been making for several years.
So I guess my question is, how much variation in size can we get away with? How close have the rest of you been keeping to the 40 x 80 size?
What should I do?
We decided some time back that cropping was not a must to meet size requirements - I vote you do whatever you think is best for your design!
ReplyDeleteWe can deal with all the variation in change that is necessary for good design. By all means, leave it long! I might have one that is longer than 80 cms, just wait.
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