Quilting

I have worked on my quilt, and the piecing can be tricky, especially since I am a new quilter.  Learning precision helps: cutting accurately, sewing precise seams, and precise measurements all work together to make a beautiful finished product.  If you know me, you know that the most challenging thing I face is the precision element.  Yesterday, I took out as much as sewed, and I had to recut a couple of pieces, and I felt the frustration mount, but in the end I got the pieces put together. I had to learn patience.  Patience for my Irish temperament does not come easily, but the reward of seeing it look good far outweighed any frustration.

My mother left me a lot of quilt blocks in many different styles.  She never pieced them together.  I wonder now if she simply enjoyed the work of getting the pieces to form a unique block?  She made the Dresden plate, butterfly, nine patch, four patch, and many other patterns I have yet to learn the names of.  She made enough of each to make full size and queen size quilts, she never joined them.  She enjoyed the process of making a block, but I still wonder why she never finished a quilt? 

When I get this quilt pieced, I will post it. 

Do you like it when everything fits into place?  We want that in life, don't we?  Not everything fits smoothly into place, but God works in us and through us and all the little kinks work out the way He plans for them.  That's what I thought of yesterday as I worked on my quilt.  Romans 8:28 :)