Scrappy-dappy-Doo

It's another "get 'er done" kind of a day. This time I am finishing up a quilt I designed to fit an extra piece of batting left over from another project. I had a look around at my fabric collection and picked other leftovers, then worked around what I had to make a top. I had left over strips in similar  colours so I pieced this together to make the back.

At that point I thought I was doing great. I pinned the whole lot together and then hit a wall. I was stumped on how to quilt it in an interesting way. The quilt languished in the armoire of what was formerly the pit of despair until a quiet day a few weeks ago. I was doing some spring cleaning, going through the places where things get hidden for another day, we all have those....don't we? When I saw it again inspiration struck. I decided to quilt "in the ditch" following the pattern on the back rather than the front. Then I went a step farther and thought why not do some free motion quilting after that? Add a little spice. 

Having a second and third look at it before I started I thought my plan would turn out one of two ways. 1) completely freaking amazing or 2) nauseatingly busy. I will admit it stopped me from doing anything for a little while. Then my sweetie said (in his infinite wisdom), " just try it. You'll never know until you do."  So I bit my lip and dove in head first. 

As of now I have finished the "in the ditch" portion. I'm not entirely sure I have made the right choice, but I am trying to reserve judgement until I am all the way done. Now I have another reason to drag my feet. I haven't done anything free motion in about ten years, if not more. Even then I was a rank beginner. I read a couple of books on the subject that had different methods of going about the process. I think in the end it will be another "jump in" moment.

I have to say that through this quilt I found that I really like the combination of a goldy-orange with purple, I may just design something else with just those two shades.