tkhooper

I'm getting frustrated. There for awhile I was doing pretty well. I'd buy the supplies for one project and then do it and then move on to the next. I've finished all of my crochet projects. Now I'm working in two new crafts. Knitting and Quilting. They both take a great deal more time than the crochet. I've been working on one quilt top for well over a year. The quilting store that was hosting the workshop closed and I lost momentum. Now I'm starting back but hand quilting the stained glass butterfly is a lot of work with approximately 147 pieces. I just had problems after problems and now I'm hoping that if I do one piece a day I'll be finished by May. Then, the question is should I do that trapino technique doubling the amount of stitching or would it make a noticeable difference when I quilt on the black background material?

Maybe I need to explain more. The american cotton fabric dulled when put on top of the black background fabric I was using. It's stained glass but the technique is raw edge applique rather than using the basting tape. So I bought white to go underneath each piece. This didn't allow me to use the simple adhesive method of adhearing the fabric to the background. I didn't realize that I could have just basted the pieces in place, so I've been stitching each in place by hand. Needless to say it has been a problem.