I give up

I thought when I bought the roses fabric I could use broderie perse to add them to that applique quilt I started earlier in the year. They are just too small and fiddly. I'm not happy with these and they took forever to do each one. So I'll find a larger print.

I can still use this fabric elsewhere.

And my plan for the millennium quilt? I like to do foundation piecing on freezer paper as I like the way it holds each piece flat when you add another one. Two rounds of 80 points will take forever. The points are too fine to go through a few layers at a time with an unthreaded needle in the machine. I'll print them out from the computer but because I don't have a super large printer, I shall have to print the outer round of points in quarters rather than one piece.
My admiration for the winner of Best of Show at the Festival of Quilts has got up even further.
So I suppose I haven't really given up, just finding other ways to reach the same ends.

Marking finished (and some gore)

I got it marked up today and yesterday. It took the best part of 9 or 10 hours. And well not gore, but a little blood. I tried the 'use your own spit method' and it didn't work. It did however make the ink run near the blood. I'm not worried blood always washes out for me (that tells you something about how careless I can be). If you click on the photo you might just see it near the top of the photo.
As always, if you want to find what I use for marking put 'perfect marking' in the little search box at the top.