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Old 11-26-2019, 01:04 PM
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Iceblossom
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Scrappy that we like is actually harder to achieve than you would think. Random often results in ugly, we want attractive randomness. It took me years of working with scraps to develop techniques to also working with my design sense to get to where I am not working so hard to achieve perfection.

I've also spent serious years trying to learn how to use and appreciate large scale fabrics, or color combination that don't instantly appeal to me. While I have always loved wild backs, most of my chosen fabric fit into the "tiny vine-y" classification.

Since I'm not so close to the project, I think it is fine. Maybe not what I would do or set out to do, but enough to finish the project. But sometimes we get all we want out of a project by piecing the blocks and it is perfectly ok to put it out on a free table at guild meeting or something -- but then when they bring it back all jaw-droppingly wonderful we do have to congratulate them!

If you decide to go on, maybe try making those geese into squares... I know, it would have been a lot easier to start it that way! If they are already put together in groups of two, just make the squares framed by a goose unit.

You could get more compulsive and piece some smaller geese to make sashing between every other row or something like that. Maybe this time use the Kaffe as the centers and just black or something strong to define the background.

But hey, step back and give yourself a hooray for trying something out of your comfort level and finding out more about your likes and dislikes. You know, a photographer can take thousands of shots to get that one cover shot. Artists often repaint their works until they get it just right. Sometimes we do that with our quilts, I rarely go back and do another one the "right" way but I've been known to do it. All I do know is I haven't made a perfect quilt yet, there is always something I would change or do differently or better. So there is always next time!
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