I started a cathedral quilt last week and have become quickly obsessed. Yes they are complicated, but I've wanted to make one for a long time. I love the option of including so many different colors, kind of like framing beautiful individual pieces. I have so many fabrics that I love, I just wanted bits of them all together. Some people do these quilts in tiny pieces. I knew I would not have the patience for that, so I started at about triple the size of the normal quilt. You have to fold and fold and fold these suckers- Origami Quilt might be a better name in fact. After creating a rather large piece I realized that I didn't want every diamond to be filled in with a patterned piece. I wanted some places for the eye to rest. Here I noticed my mistake. If I left the quilt as it was, there would be more solid pieces than fantastic patterned pieces, no matter how many squares I added. I let it sit for a day. Could I really undo all those squares I had completed? All of that hand stitching? I made my choice this morning. I set to work with some trusty scissors and undid them all. I knew that looking at that quilt as it grew and grew and wasn't quite what I wanted would eventualy break my heart. Sometimes it's worth a little...okay a lot of extra time invested to get something you'll be really proud of. I feel oddly relieved. I made the right choice in something! It's not a What do I do with my life kind of something, but it will bring comfort and joy to me every time I look at it. That's great too!
You can see I'm really into oranges and greens right now.
I've decided to do a lot of rearranging since I have to take it all out anyway. This red piece will move to a completely different part of the quilt. It was too big of a show-off here! I love this print though- it looks Scandinavian to me, or maybe like a story book pattern.
