Monday, February 22, 2010

Adding, subtracting, adding

This simple quilt has been hidden away in a plastic tub awaiting my fabulous design idea. Long story made short - it didn't work. My fabulous design idea took me hours and hours of work and in the end I undid everything and simply added some random buttons instead.The buttons show up much better in person, but you can see a dot or two here and there.
Here is a closeup of my highly unique "put a button at the cross-hatch" idea. It will make it a smidge* more interesting when it hangs on the wall.
On the stitching front, I'm working on block #7 of Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow and enjoying stitching the evergreen trees.
*(By the way, Spell-checker tells me there is no such word as "smidge". Really? I use it all the time. Have I failed my English class again?)

3 comments:

MB said...

ooooh ... love the colors of that quilt!! How long has that been stashed away? Where did you hang it? The stitching piece is also adorable! And I agree that "smidge" is a perfect word! My dictionary likes "Smidgen" and I'm thinking that "smidge" is short for "smidgen" ... works for me!

Littlebit said...

Beautiful quilt!! Beautiful stitching!! I can hardly wait to start on that one..I'm still trying to finish up on Village.

Shasta said...

yep, I went to www.m-w.com and it says that smidge is a word, short for smidgen. Just to make you feel better, spell check doesn't think that sashing is a word either.