Lessons Learned LOL
 

It is a very rainy day today, and really cold - the perfect weather for quilting!

I don't really have a lot of "matching" fabric left over so I went to Walmart and bought some really pretty greens / blues and 2 yards of white. My plan? Drunkard's path.

It's been fun LOL

I learned that when you trace over the circle with a quilting pen and then cut out the circle (leaving some around it to go on the interfacing) that when you iron the fabric to the interfacing the marking lines go away.

So after doing 36 circles and then ironing them I had to retrace all the circles and then cut them out.

NEXT TIME: I will iron the fabric right onto the interfacing and not have to worry about getting glue on my iron, and losing my lines!

The white fabric? Well, it's too thin ... (yes, I know, it's from walmart, I should know better!) So you can see the blues / greens fabric beneath the white fabric.

NEXT TIME: either buy good white cotton, or don't do white!

I'm not going to toss it, since it's pretty, and I will finish it, but I've learned some fun things doing this pattern!

Here's what I have so far (I count that as four blocks, and it will be 9 in total)

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It is still very pretty and I am happy you are going to finish it. Show us when you have it done.

Many whites are "see-through."

Love it! Once you've got your batting and backing in place, it will be fine! How are you liking those curved seams?

Very pretty! You won't see through the white with your batting behind it.

Nice. Put some white batting behind it and the white won't be so see-through.

That is turning out so pretty. I love rainy and cold days too. Love to either bake or sew on days like that. Thanks for sharing.

Looks good, and as the others say, once there is a white backing behind, it will be less noticeably showing the colour through.

It looks lovely. As for the whites being too sheer, that bothers me, too, and I find even most of the whites from the LQS are too sheer. Just yesterday I fused some very thin fusible interfacing to the back of my white fabric before I cut it, because I thought it was too sheer. That works well. You may want to try it next time.

Your quilt is very pretty! I learn something new on every project! I think that is where the intrigue of quilting comes :thumbup:!