Snowball Night: Week 7

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
-Brendan Francis


I don't have much progress to report on my first Snowball Quilt.

Here is the back of the quilt with all those teeny tiny corners I saved and sewed together into scrappy baby snowball blocks. It turned out pretty fun, but for a while there I was worried that it wasn't going to work out. They didn't actually look like snowballs until they were all sewn in.

I've got it mostly pinned for quilting. Just over half-way through I ran out of curved basting pins, so I sorted through my regular safety pins and pulled out all the ones that were the same size as the basing pins. That got me a little over half of what I needed, so then I pulled the next size down out and they worked without much trouble. But I still have a corner and one side of the border that need pinned and I'm not to keen on the idea of using the itty bitty pins that are left to finish the job. I'm hearing shouts of, just go buy more pins! Normally I would, but there are budget constraints so I'm hoping to make this work with what I have. I think that this corner is stable enough that if I start working on the opposite side I can use the pins that come out of that side to finish pinning.

I wanted to have it quilted and bound by now. The last word I heard was that my sister's wedding shower was today, but when I talked to my mom to confirm, she told me it wasn't until next week, so I let my lack of pins and cowardice take the reigns on this project. I have planned for this quilt {free motion} stippling, but I've only practiced it a little bit and it is pretty craptastic. I know I'll get better with practice, but I hate for a quilt that is a gift to be my practice piece. I've been picturing making lovely rounded stipples in my head all week long, hoping that visualization will get me there, but the only thing for it is to just do it.