Learning Process

Each day I've taken 30 minutes and tried to quilt a small section of my wholecloth quilt.  I've only ever done one other wholecloth quilt and I was completely falling the directions of Leah Day, because it was a quilt along.  We did a lot of micro-stippling on it, so I fell back on that stitch as the first real filler for this quilt, but if I had to do it all over again I would chose a design that had straight edges that imitated the form of blocks to make it match the stone on the temple a bit more.  I really didn't like the micro-stipling at all after I finished it, but I've gotten used to it, so I think we'll chalk it up to being a learning process and move on with the quilting. 

The pattern changes on the stone around the arch, so I wanted a differentiating quilt design there.  I used Sashiko Shell, and I think it works perfectly.

I have an itch to start using some of the accent colors even though I'm not done with the gray stone yet, so maybe I'll do the bushes next.