We live in a world of judgment, unrealistic expectations and unrealized potential. Consumers who frequent stores like Walmart and Target have learned to buy as cheaply as they can, and return anything that doesn't work or doesn't fit in their lives. That contradicts the entire energy and purpose of owning something uniquely hand crafted.
After using eight horizontal lines of stitch-in-the-ditch, I am quilting a serpentine stitch down the middle of narrow green bars, and "Snowy Roads" is looking good to my eye. There are more of the narrow bars going horizontally that I will most likely do the same. Blocks made of 16 squares might like to have a grid going across them, however, like life, it is one step at a time.
Another 16. This number has been coming up for me so often in the quilts that I looked up its vibration & meaning this morning to discover that people under its influence need to keep their feet on the path of higher learning, and cultivate their personal willpower & independence to enable them to overcome any obstacles. I want to think about that more. Over the years, I have learned that the cosmos presents deeper lessons and to pay attention when something, like this number 16, seems to repeat.
The other side of the discussion regarding machine quilting techniques is that most people support a quilter's choice in how they work. They recognize that we all start at the beginning of the art form and evolve according to how much we practice and how open we are to changes. Everyone comes to their projects with their own values and skills and usually does the best they can with what they have.
None of us has the right to play the all-knowing to another's work or to another's choice. We really cannot see the outcomes or the what a person learns from what they do.
What we do have is the responsibility to listen to our inner voice, which always guides us to our greater good.
