Progression on Thoughts on Dots


Above is pretty much how the piece was before I started working on it again last night and this morning.


Here you can see I got the piece into what I thought was a final stage. I particularly like the upper lefthand corner section.

Two concerns I had were adding the new fabrics from Seattle and the sewing.

After contemplating the construction of the piece (AKA how to sew it together), I realized that adding an additional row would allow me to sew the thing in 4 patches AND leave the two bottom rows unsewn so that I could work on uniting the two halves. (In case I forgot to mention it, dear readers, I plan to make this piece twice the size it is now and add a couple of rows on the right hand side as well.) St. JCN sugested that I keep the bottom two rows on the design wall to aid in uniting the two halves. I decided that it would be easier to work with the bottom two rows if they were not sewn together. All of this meant that I needed an extra row otherwise I would have an orphan row which would ruin my 4 patch sewing model.

You might ask why not sew the thing in rows. I find that sewing large pieces in chunks (e.g. 4 patches) rather than rows facilitates squareness of the entire piece.

Adding an additional row also meant I could start to incorporate the Seattle fabrics into the piece, so the two halves would not look like completely different quilts.

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

2 thoughts on “Progression on Thoughts on Dots”

  1. i think the two pictures you have on this post are the same. the dots look really wonderful and i think it is going to be terrific. will you be quilting in circles? do you have a plan? an idea? it’s fun watch the progress of this.

  2. Nope, they aren’t, but the changes are subtle. Look in the upper left hand corner, for instance. Sorry to bore you with such minor changes. I won’t be quilting this monster at all! I think circles are a good idea, but we will see what transpires. Thanks for reading.

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