The Pity Party's Over

You'll be happy to know that my pity party is well and truly over. All of the moaning and dripping about how I wasn't enjoying working on Country Cousin has been put to bed - it is now a flimsy.

I took Kyle's advice and sat down with ripper in hand and some seasonal tunes and worked my way through the missteps that I had created. In no time all of the rows came together.

I knew that I wanted to put borders on it because I like my charity quilts to be a decent size so rather than throw it onto a pile to work on later I pulled out a few border fabrics and sat down with my calculator.

In hindsight, the pink could have been a little narrower or the first blue border could have been a little wider, but its not the end of the world. The blue floral border is wider across the top and the bottom to help make it more rectangular than square. I was trying to get the most from that floral but still wanted it all gone so I cut my binding before I cut the two side panels. The finished size will be 69" x 88".

When I messed up the order of the blocks I think I also turned a few in the wrong direction, totally changing my plan not to have the same lights or blues bumping up against each other. Obviously, that didn't always work out the way that I had planned but I'm resigned to the fact that its just how scrappy works. I suspect that I might be the only one who will care.

It feels great to know that I've used up so many pieces that had been languishing in my stash - that was a huge motivator in pulling the fabrics that I did for this project in the first place. There's still a backing to be made but I'm prepared to do that another day.

It feels equally great to have my head space cleared for a little last minute seasonal sewing. I was bound and determined that it was not going to happen before this one was together so now its clear sailing on the Christmas front and I'm looking forward to that.....M