A Cheek to Cheek Balancing Act

Remember I said I seldom mark anything before quilting. I must admit sometimes it does help keep you out of trouble to do a bit of marking. I quilted down the right cheek to the bottom of Ben's face...continued under the lip area headed for the opposite cheek and realized I was starting to develope a direction of hair pattern that if continued would imbalance the frame of Ben's face. So I stopped just under the edge of Ben's lip and brought out my Conte pastel chalk pencil again. I loosely sketched in the direction of flow I wanted to compliment the opposite cheek area.

Now starting again at the higher arch ... I set up the quilting pattern to keep going back down to below his lip.