The true secret of being a productive writer, quilter, or knitter is known as “butt in chair.” For some odd reason, the work doesn’t get done if you’re out shopping, daydreaming, playing with your kids, etc. Yes, I know that knitters can sometimes walk around and knit, but the knitted quilt I’ve been trying to finish is definitely a butt-in-chair project.
Since you last saw it, I have made a good deal of progress on the Snowflake Dreams of Spring quilt. Its edges are bound. The white crochet trim is sewn in place. I have added buttons. Here’s a close-up, so you can see these details better.
I started the project with six weeks to finish it, so I could enter it into an exhibition. I was in a hurry, and the work is not as neat as it could have been.
So I had to confront the profound, artistic question: “How can I cover up these messy joins?”
The white trim does double duty, covering joins and very attractively adding definition to the snowflake. But another set of joins looks particularly bad. My first idea was to cover the joins with these spring-green crocheted leaves. Short of crocheting six of them, I am trying to visualize how the green will affect the overall look of the snowflake. Digital technology may be able to help–I could scan the leaf and paste it six times onto a digital photo of the quilt.
Daughter Eva loves them. “They look great!” she says. But she loves yellow-green, and would turn most of the world that color if she could.
The leaf looks really green and noticeable in this close-up photo above. (Someone told me they couldn’t see the flaps of the quilt; I think you can see them in this photo.) Below is the quilt from afar. I can see the green leaf, but it doesn’t seem so glaring. Any comments?
