This quilt differs from the previous one in that only the larger centre tractor was used with 4 quilt blocks at the top and 4 more at the bottom. It was also a little smaller than the previous quilt.
Here it
shows some of the detail in the sky. The
completed quilt can be seen on the Gallery page.
I received 2 quilts made from the same panel and although very much alike there are some differences. This one, the larger of the two, used 3 parts of the panel with 5 quilt blocks at the bottom.
As can be
seen, plenty of detail was added and I can’t remember when last I was this
nervous to quilt anything. This quilter
came to show me these some 3 months ago, already quilted by someone else and
she was not happy. She then undertook to
unpick everything and wanted me to redo it.
Honestly, I could not see much wrong with the quilting and
I said to her I don’t believe I can do any better.
There is this unwritten rule in longarm quilting: if you make a tiny mistake, just go on
and if you finish the quilt and can still see or find your mistake, only then
do you unpick and redo.
With this
quilt, however, every tiny spot where I missed a ditch or a line felt like
the end of the world and I was convinced it would be the first thing the
quilter would notice. I stuck to my
unwritten rule and I could hardly spot mishaps afterwards. So, if this quilter plans to scrutinise the
quilting, she surely will find mistakes but seriously, then she should do it
herself. I did my best.
This
picture shows some detail on and surrounding the tractor.
