Originally Posted by PaperPrincess
OOh, dunno. This is a toughy. Is this supposed to look like a suit/shirt? Maybe a pin wheel block where the flags are? It's a really big expanse of black fabric. Can you maybe substitute a black batik for the black? How about making black/charcoal grey pinwheels or 4 or 9 patches instead of the solid black squares. Still would be very dark, but would break it up a bit. If it's not supposed to be a suit, then I would see about moving his campaign logo fabric and making it horizontal. He's probably a great DA, quilt designer, maybe not so much.
He wanted a V in the quilt of white material on a black background with alabama around outside of quilt. and as you can see it does nothing for it. I did a Kentucky log cabin on the front of this quilt and he wanted this on the back side.
Judy