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The binding is on and loose threads are tied off and nipped away. I’ve decided I like the quilting on this after all. The meandering fits the snowflake theme I think. It’s a gentle snowfall with flakes drifting down vs. a raging storm which I think straight line quilting would’ve represented. Taking a picture of a full quilt is hard to do. The ones we took with the quilt held up (in natural light at about 4pm)  don’t do the quilt justice because the piecing I did on the backing showed through, making a distracting stripe shadow down the middle of the quilt.  I didn’t see the stripe until I downloaded these pictures tonight, too late to retake in the sunlight.

The ones taken with the quilt on the lawn give the snowflake/kaleidoscopes a  ‘spaceship flying away from the camera’ look. Also not what I am looking for.

I’m going to try taking shots tomorrow in different daylight and see if I can do better.  This quilt is not done teaching me lessons from experience.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.  ~Auguste Rodin

I’m not sure if this was mistake or not, but I decided on an all over meander pattern to quilt this.  Things I thought of doing, but didn’t:

• Straight-ish lines
• A grid
• Swirly circle things
• More snowflakes
• Some combination of all of the above.

I decided on the safe meander route.  Here I’ve posting things about taking risks and not being ‘regular’ and here I am not following my own council.  But I went with meander because this has ended up being quite a large quilt – 98″x72″ and I was concerned that I’d never be able to execute any of the above in a decent sort of way over that large a surface area.

Excuses, excuses, rationalization, excuses.  To me, the craftsmanship and execution of an idea is as important as the taking the risk.  And I knew I could do a good meander. So there.