The quilt that doesn't want finished...

I really haven’t done a lot today. Every time I start thinking of the quilt I want to enter into the State Fair and the fact that I need to finish it up, my day comes to a standstill. I don’t know what it is about that quilt, but I don’t think it wants to be finished. Does that make any sense? Then again, I think my quilts “talk” to me as I’m working on them. LOL They tell me their names and they end up with personalities. Just a weird thought on my part I suppose. Though I have heard other quilters say the same thing, so I’m not all alone in my nuttiness. *grin*

Maybe if I fully prepared everything for that quilt, it would stop being so stubborn about being finished. Even it’s buried right now and needs dug back out. I normally baste my quilts on the floor for the space, but this one is actually small enough to be basted on my cutting table. Maybe I should dig out my cutting table as well. It’s buried under fabric for other projects I've been working on instead of this quilt. Hmm... This quilt is also small enough that I might even be able to use basting spray on it instead. I normally don't use it on large projects, but this might be just fine.

I need to practice quilting with only flannel as a batting. I've never done anything with something that thin before. That's bound to be interesting. I need to determine if my machine's tension needs any adjustment while doing free motion quilting. It probably will. So much for that "automatic tension adjustment" they advertise for my machine. It works just fine when the machine is doing its own thing, just not in free motion. I'm terrible when it comes to adjusting tension. Not to mention the fact that the designs I want to use are relatively curvy. My free motion curves cause me the most problems. If this is going to show, I have to get that fixed.

Almost makes me wonder why I should even bother. However, if it wins, that would be beyond cool. Wouldn't be too bad for a "baby quilter," now would it? I mean, I've only been quilting for 4 years. Maybe a simple win here would gear me up for the larger shows... Like "Quilt Colorado." That would be cool. Or what about Houston or Paducah? The sky's the limit if I could just take that first step.

At least this quilt (the miniature log cabin) finally "told" me it's name. It's going to be "The Rising Star of Colorado." Pretty spiffy, huh? I like it. Just came to me one day while I was thinking about it. Guess it's time to start making the label for it as well. I'll probably put that off forever too. *sigh* Just the way I am. Though I bet I could get both the label and the quilt done in time if I'd just stop procrastinating!! I have no clue what my problem is with it.

Okay, I'm going to go do... something. LOL There are still so many steps in the way to get the surfaces prepared for the quilt that there's time to procrastinate and give up in the process. Just to take that first step to doing it. Would you believe that I'm actually NERVOUS to do that? There's not even a guarantee that I'll win anything with this quilt. Maybe that's my problem. Don't enter, don't fail. Or is it supposed to be the other way? If you don't even try, you've already failed.

Ugh. Okay... Time to go do something about this.