Saturday, April 11, 2015

DOUBLE WIGGLE Not So Simplified

 As a hedge against further shrinkage incidents, I made this baby blanket test quilt somewhat larger. Good thing too as my nephew is growing faster than I'm sewing. That's not as bad as it seems. This quilt is an experimental design thjat went beyond my expertise. While the topside looks interesting-good, even a cursory examination of the back reveals that rounding the edge with the border has stumbled somewhere. Perhaps a clear chalk line to show the fold location might have helped. Somehow the backside drifted, so the border's a bummer on the back. Grow fast Ivan, when it's a wall hanging, the back won't show.

This quilt is called "Double Wiggle Simplified" because the field (center of wiggly triangles) isn't showing the full threefold circular net. The plan was to quilt on the simplified net in the field and surround it with a border of the complete net of circles of fishes.




The drift debacle was somewhat disheartening. Fortunately I started the quilting by chalking the full net for one direction in one corner and stitched it before I got bummed out. Now even though the full effect of the two nets in one is blunted by the drift on the back, I've got one corner already set up for the full net test.



  The other three corners have only the simplified net, and depending on the test, they may stay that way.

It's an oddball, but even if it's the only one I do, I'm glad I got to see a quilt in this pattern.