The internal debate

As a crafter I think that often times people start projects and don't finish a project before they move onto other projects. Sometimes I don't finish because I simply loose interest, sometimes I don't have all the supplies to finish and need to get to the store, and sometimes I just don't know exactly how I want to finish it.

The last few weeks while I have had quite a bit of home-time I have found the extra time and energy to finish bunches of projects. I am determined to finish two more before I move onto my new projects and I am simply stuck. I am in one of those stages of not knowing exactly what I want to do with a project. I am working really hard to decide. Remember this quilt?I finally cut out some stars to applique in various places through the quilt, I just can't decide how to place them, because I can't decide whether I want to try and quilt it on my sewing machine or just tie it. I really want to decide this today or tomorrow night because Russ is out of town and if I am going to tie it right now would be the perfect time to set up my frame to tie it. Russ doesn't mind if I set projects up in the house, but he doesn't like them up too long. Since this is my last free week until August I would need to finish it this weekend or not work on it until August.

With the stars, I have not ironed these on so I can move them. If I tie it I will put them in close sections all over. If I quilt it I want to have space to sew a couple stars around the individual stars for some added dimension. Therefore, the stars would not be so close together. Or the last idea that I have for quilting around the stars is to only quilt star shapes around the circumference of a larger area of stars and not around each individual star. I don't know if that makes sense...but it does to me.

What does you think? If I tie it, I will be using dark navy yarn (in fact the same yarn I used on the levi quilt I posted a couple weeks ago.) Should I quilt it? Ah....the decisions. The idea of how to make it came together so much better than the finishing the project, but I MUST finish. This is my goal.

Hope that you enjoyed.