Making Changes

Well, I finished quilting the Mexican star block, the Dresden plate block, and most of the Grandmother's fan block on my niece's wall hanging when I finally admitted to myself what I had been trying to ignore since Thanksgiving. The more I looked at my niece's wall hanging, the more dissatisfied I was with the background fabric on the two applique squares. I think the Pooh fabric was just too busy to be an effective background.

So, I removed all of the quilting from both the Dresden plate and Grandmother's fan blocks (I know, I know, it was depressing!) and then removed the two "offending" blocks.




Then I removed the appliques from the Pooh background fabric. I selected a pale pink background fabric to replace the Pooh fabric with and basted the applique pieces down again.

I hope to finish this project in the next 2-3 weeks because I will be starting another quilting class at that time and will want to work on the class project.