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Monday, September 6, 2010

Do You Think . . .

that mistakes made by well-known quilters often end up in new patterns or new quilt names or new quilt stitch names? 

Of course, I am not a well-known quilter, but that is what happened to me. My blue quilt has been known as the "Snowflake" quilt since its' start as a thought. Well, as I was quilting one of my outside borders, my quilt got a new name.

"Snowflakes and Daisies"

What? It is really quite simple. I decided to do a "loops and snowflake" meandering in a couple of the outside borders. But, after I quilted the first snowflake--I looked and it was definitely a daisy.


Well, truth be known, I was too lazy to rip it out so I just continued to make loops and daisies. Therefore, my quilt was renamed.

Now, if I was quilting this to give to someone, I would have taken the stitches out. But since I will keep it myself (or maybe give it to Craig), I wasn't worried about it and continued to make daisies.

So what do you think? Do you think mistakes often become really grand ideas?

7 comments:

  1. Of course they do! And your daisies look wonderful!

    Funny, I don't rip for myself or family either. LOL

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  2. I have done some of that "creative" stuff too but mine usually come when I am piecing!!!

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  3. The daisy's look great. My mistakes come in the piecing - I bet a lot of people do that too.
    Karen
    http://karensquilting.com/blog/

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  4. My mistakes are MISTAKES !! LOL
    True, blue MISTAKES !!
    You should have seen the ones I've made while doing the longarm yesterday.
    BUT - the MISTAKES took on an entire life of their own and now I'm the only one that knows the "LIFE" started out as a mistake...LOL....

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  5. Love the daisies! Wouldn't dream of ever ripping them out!

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  6. I'm with Cindy above, my mistakes are MISTAKES! But your daisies are pretty, pretty.

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