Quilt as desired - the most dreaded three words in quilters language. I recently finished a quilt made for a family member going through a rough time.
Although I started out as a traditional quilter, now days I prefer make up my own patterns and doing my on thing, but for comfort and supposed speed a traditional, follow the lines pattern was the way to go. The pattern is Four Patch ladder from Quilterscache.
Or so I thought. First I had trouble keeping the cream and blue blocks in the right order - every now and then a blue one would show up were a cream one should be and a cream on in a blue spot. Finally got that under control and finished the whole quilt. Put it up on the design wall and stood back to admire it - and found I had reversed one of the yellow half square triangles! Fixed that and then on quilt as desired . . .
I quilted in the ditch around the large squares and the blue triangles - but then struggled with the inside of the large squares. This was my first attempt and I hated it. So out came the stitches.
I then decided to do a free motion swirl instead - not completely satisfied but a great improvement.
I think one thing I truly dislike about quilting a quilt like this is the marking. I have had problems in the past removing markings, so tend to just wing it. Not a great plan if you want things to be the same in every block or border. I was watching The Quilt Show the other day and Ronda Beyer demoed how she marks using the Quilt Pounce.
A tool I had but never really used. Out it came to mark the borders and it worked. I could see the lines and they were easy to remove. 
Maybe next time quilt as desired won't be as dreaded.
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