Anticipation

 Hey all,

The quilt I quilted to test the tension was this Christmas quilt that I made using blocks left from a Bonnie Hunter mystery that went awry.  It was NOT Bonnie's fault.  I changed the colors then didn't like the result in the reveal.  This is what the quilt was supposed to look like....

This image is from Bonnie's web site:  Click here to buy her pattern.  This was her Allietare mystery quilt from about 6 years ago.  

Back when Bonnie designed this I did not like the color combination resulting from my change once the blocks were put together, so I took the star blocks and set them aside. I made a quilt out of the other blocks and donated it to the junior league of Winona for their fundraiser.  Those star blocks were set aside, and periodically I would run across them and think, I need to figure something out for them, but never seemed to set aside the time to do it.  

So last year I took the star blocks to Quiltville Inn and the group of ladies there helped me come up with this setting.  

So if you don't like how something is going...don't be afraid to change things around.  Loved both the blocks individually, just not together.  Ended up with two great quilts from this pattern.  This was the first quilt I quilted after the tension issues.  So out of practice on a long-arm, but I have a number of tops done, so I should get some of my skills back soon.  This quilt is for me, so if it is not perfect it is ok.

The back has numbers 1-25 and is called countdown to Christmas, so Will named this one Anticipation ;

So thanks Will!

Sew on,

Terry