Second Trial Quilt As You Go

Wondering why you didn't see a finish for the first quilt as you go trial? It was a disaster. I don't know if I can save it later, or if I even want to. I've given up on the Karen Charles Method. Putting on long strips with that method was maddening. The batting stretched, the front bunched, and quilting it was just as difficult as quilting a whole quilt. There is a reason she only does a table runner on her video.

By Wednesday midnight, I had the bottom row attached, and called it a night. When I got up Thursday morning, I saw that the row had been put on AND quilted, upside down. Luckily, if you can call it that, my tension had messed up after a wound the last bobbin, so most of the stitching pulled out easily. Still it was a lot of work. So I flipped the row around and stitched it on AND quilted it. And it was still wrong. I threw it in the corner and moved on to the next trial.

I had already cut all the fabric into strips, so it was just a matter of cutting those into blocks. By Thursday evening, I had the basic quilt laid out. I wanted to get up and get an early start Friday, but something was wrong with Buddy The Cat. He kept losing his balance and kept falling. So Hubby and I spent the morning and half his paycheck at the vet and came home with four prescriptions to give to a cat who refuses to cooperate. After lunch, we needed to look at yet another travel trailer (did I tell you we are trying to buy a trailer for our daughter and grands so they can move here?) so I didn't get back to sewing until after dinner.

By bedtime, this is what I had on the wall:

For quilting this trial, I am going to use a combination of methods from QueenofStitching and Joy Morgan. I am not the least bit interested in hand stitching or anything fiddly, but I think I can take a few tips from each of them and make this quick and easy.

Last night, I also pulled enough fabric to do the back. I'm not even going to try making pieced blocks. I'll use the cat fabric in the center, if there is enough, and the plain fabric around it.

All this just to put together my Block of the Month sampler! If I don't like this method either, I may end up hand quilting it, and that will take me months if not years. Remember that Ameliorate Sampler is my One Monthly Goal for February?



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