Sunday, July 31, 2011

MORE ON CHLOE

I'm at a quandry right now on the last lilac block to embroider. The picture shows the embroidery fits in the lilac block but the recent (March)  instruction changes by BERNINA have the design overlapping on both long sides. I was very careful to keep the lilac pieces during the cutting just in case I needed another piece so I can remake it if I need to. Then on another page they recognize you can chose either method. I think after writing this post I've made my mind up to just center the design and embroider, letting the design overlap to the thin inner border; option A. In absolute worse case scenario if I absolutely do not like the look I can remake. The kit did come with about 1/3 yd extra of everything but the lilac! I've got all the borders stitched and just this one lilac piece and 2 other blocks are left to stitch out. These other 2 blocks will have the center of the main block stitched and that will go very quickly because they aren't a very filled design.
Then I will layer the quilt, batting and backing and at this point the plan is to do some of the quilting embroidery designs from Diane Gaudynski's latest collection then finish with some BSR fill in work.