Pointed Perspective

Working on these footballs, I'm reminded of the lessons I'm learning in its creation. The whole project is a huge lesson in patience. It's also a leap of faith as I work diligently assembling hundreds (or thousands?) of bits of fabric and hope they'll all fit together in the end.

Today, I'm adding another lesson to the list: Perspective. One of the things that marks a master quilter (which I am not) is the ability to make seams come together and make perfect points. The goal is to make it all match up. Anything less is simply substandard.

With each football, two arcs come together to meet a corner square. When they do that, they're supposed to make a perfect point at each end of the center melon.

Now, I must say that many of my points are perfect. However, most are substandard. But, they're not off by much. The picture above is the worst of my substandard set today. And, it might be among the most substandard of the lot.

As it came off the Singer, it looked HUGE! This was a gaping error that would destroy the integrity of the finished quilt. I was convinced people would be able to spot it for miles. I would simply have to figure out how to fix it. But, I thought I'd wait until I had finished the chain I'd started. When I finished the chain, I ironed each piece and kept an eye out for the horrible point I had missed earlier.

There, stacked among it 30 siblings, I couldn't spot it. On much closer inspection I found it. But, after not being able to see it amongst the others, I imagined how impossible it would be to find on a quilt containing 180 of them.

So, there that substandard point sits. Can you find it below?



I didn't think so.