Saturday, August 11, 2012

Finally making progress

After about 6 weeks of cutting, pinning, cutting, pinning, fiddling and finally doing the applique work - the center of my Jubilee quilt was done (except for the very center). Yay!!
It was so exactly what I had pictured.
Every part was perfect (at least to me!!).  And then I came to the borders and everything came to a screeching halt!!  For about 2 months.
I finally had a breakthru and realized what was wrong.  I made these petals smaller and added more of them, including 5 scallops on each side (my original design had 4).
The creative juices were flowing again.  The Olympics has given me a lot of time to work on the applique.  There are 20 scallops and almost 200 petals.  But I'm over halfway done - yay!!!!
I still had a huge problem of what to put in the middle between the scallops, but with the help of a very special friend, I finally broke thru that hurdle too (almost).
So for now, I'm back on track.  My goal is to have the top done before Christmas - I think I can do it. 
-Karen

14 comments:

  1. Karen, It really looks wonderful! Nice work on plugging forward on your jubilee quilt!!

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  2. very pretty! love the movement of the vines.

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  3. Merveilleux!! Fantastique!!
    J'aime beaucoup les appliqués, vous aimez les même chose que moi.
    Je vient de finir 8 blocs en appliqués tissus 1800.
    Je vous invite a visiter mon blog.
    passiondelacouretpointe.blogspo.com
    Je vous souhaite une belle fin semaine.
    continuer votre beau travail.
    Gisèle de Québec

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  4. Lovely! The vines and blocks are beautiful together. Wonderful details, it is a treasure!

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  5. This is so gorgeous! I love it!

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  6. Oh, wow. I love how the vines just go however they want to go - like real life. It's beautiful!
    Can't wait to see what you have in store for the borders!

    Judy

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  7. My - Oh - My ! What a beauty ... You're really doing a GREAT job!

    XOXOXOXOXO
    NADINE

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  8. Great progress. It's looking wonderful. Congrats on getting over the creative humps. Lane

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  9. Karen, it's looking SO good!! Keep going, keep going........

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  10. It's gorgeous. I admire your persistence. Lots of "fiddling" as you say. Go girl!

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