Six Lines Shy

I admit it, I'm loafin on tha fishes. Though it's probably just as well. I've been sewing every day for six weeks now. Building up to about six or so hours a day, and I'm still short most of six "layers" (sets of wiggly lines about four inches apart, all the way across the quilt in six separate directions) of stitches. Don't get me wrong, I love the threefold-fishy network, its's possibly the best quilting pattern my entry level skills and sewing machine can manage. But dam, that's a lot of wiggly lines.
 Besides, my quality control was weak-ish. As demonstrated by the area of tiny red ties that delineate a repaired ripple that required repairs in lots of stitch rows to chase down and flatten. In fact it was several times as large as the one I missed completely (pale green, top center) till this picture was in Photoshop being re-sized and saved for the web. So, guess I dodged a few more repairs anyway. I can save five or six layers of repairs by taking care of this one before I finish the last six layers of wiggles.

The threefold circular (piscis) network is at the heart of this group of Cyclogon Quilts and is also the pattern of the quilting in this project. Printed out and laid face down on a blank white sheet, the worksheet at left makes it easier to find the various cyclogons (compass net versions of various polygons) used in this group of quilt experiments.

To quote Mr. Deeds and President Kennedy, "These puppies are wicked hard to work with, but it's not because they are easy that we will take these challenges on."

The Last Connoli

This is the last time I'll have to roll this quilt to add another wiggly line of stitches. Turns out I was once again over optimistic about how much more there was yet to do.

Three sets of wiggly lines to outline the triangular pieces, that is rolling and working all the way across adding lines of wiggly stitches three directions. Then three more times to subdivide them into three smaller wobbly triangles. This is where I stopped.

To make the circles and fishy flowers like at the bottom foot or so, would require six more rollings. I'm sure it would be lovely, but it would take me about 20 to 24 more hours. I think I'm really warming up to the wobbly triangles, any one of which would fit in the palm of my hand. These two show views of the top side before it had a border

 I'll get better pictures up tomorrow. As it is I'll be lucky to get this post up by 11:30 tonight.