Two Down: Fifty to Go.

The second quilt was stipple quilted in less than an hour.  The back looks good and I even had a few feet of thread to spare.

I know why these took so long to finish:  I decided that I don't really like everything about them, and wish I had done things differently.

What does that mean?  I would rather that the little blue squares were not there; that the hearts looked like they were just floating along in a sea of white.  While I am partial to the fabric used for the small green border on the second one, I think the project would have looked better if I had chosen something blue, to bring out the blue flowers in one of the fabrics inside the quilt.

My motto, which has gotten at least one frustrated perfectionist through the process of learning to quilt, has long been:  Each quilt is practice for the next one.  These patterns will probably be used again, and certainly the principles will come in handy in other situations.  I need to look longer and more carefully, before installing a border.  And I plan to keep going, even when there is an "ugly stage" to the current project.  It seems like there usually is an ugly stage.

Now it's time to make a visit....