The Stress Is Killing Me!

I hate being stressed out over a hobby. I don't even think it's that I'm so worked up over my quilting, it's that stupid quilt rack that I ordered from Crate & Barrel several weeks ago. Turns out that I have to be home for a four hour block for them to drop it off. Since I don't get home until 4pm, there's no way that's possible. I've yelled at the shipping company, and Crate & Barrel, and they sugessted that I pay for after hours shipping, or drive the hour and a half drive to Grand Rapids to pick it up at the shipping hub. Which to that I say absolutly not! So hopefully I'll be able to have them drop it off at my parents house, which is still in my mind, wrong, since I paid to have it delivered to my house. So just a word to anyone out there that's considereding having Crate & Barrel furniture shipped to their house--they're not nice to deal with, and I personally won't deal with them again.

Now on to my quilting dillema. I've started the quilting on Granny's Quilt, and although I like it so far, I don't know how to complete it. Each block has two sqaures on opposite points, where I've quilted a square with an "X" through. On its opposite corners, the four points of each quilt square meet together. It looks a little bland to me there, and I'm not quite sure how to quilt it. I thought about outlining a simple circle, but I'm not sure if that will look right. Either way, here's a picture of the quiltwork so far. If anyone has any ideas for ways to quilt the blank spaces (Look to the previous post if you need a reminder of what the front looks like) please leave me some comments. I'm taking any and all ideas--even silly ones. Those sometimes turn out to work really well.

Quilting Writers Block

*note: I'm sorry if my description made no sense. Hopefully the picture is self explanitory.

**note2: It is a lot larger of a blank space than it looks like in this picture. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

Comments

Wow, I'm so impressed. I'm a hand quilter too, but mostly self taught as it seems quite passe these days. It's a rare member or our Local quilt guild that doesn't machine quilt, and in the smaller groups I'm involved I can count the hand quilters on ...well one hand. This design is cool. I mostly get ideas from old books I find at garage sales. Very nice. And yes becka is cool I think I'm going to tweak that turtle design so that it is more of a mariners compass...I like.

posted by brit | September 20, 2004 11:48 PM

wow. i didn't even realize that you guys were talking about my stuff! i hadn't read the comments in a while, though i have been reading entries :) the messenger bag is from a vogue pattern....7328. it doesn't look like much on the front of the pattern envelope, but it is a great pattern. thanks for all of your great comments about the turtle bag. my mom really loves it.

posted by becka | September 22, 2004 10:55 AM

quilting ideas.. maybe use the same "square-with-an-x" that you did for the corners but make it a little bigger and rotate 90 degrees...so you'd have a diamond shape... or maybe a "flower" of 4 of the same lemon shapes you've used. i don't really have a feel for quilting patterns, but those are a couple of things that occured to me.

posted by becka | September 22, 2004 11:01 AM

I've been thinking about this square, and you could just go with and easy ol' heart pattern, its for your grandma isn't it? You don't need a pattern that is continuous, so that might work. Lot of times I use hearts to fill in space because it is a quick quilt. Just a thought.

posted by brit | September 22, 2004 12:46 PM

uh sorry about that, I got kicked off by your alert and told to repost again later. I guess it reposted for me....several times.*blush*

posted by brit | September 22, 2004 12:49 PM

No problem! I just deleted the extras. :)

posted by Sarah | September 22, 2004 04:06 PM
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