When do you abandon a project?
#41
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
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I like your fabric and the blocks. Maybe to add a little to it, you could use stashing of a contrasting or attention getting color....I love the old looking prints.. reminds me of my childhood with my grandmother.
#43
I am glad you chose to keep going on your quilt. I love the colors, and agree that you will also find a second design emerge as you continue on. Please keep us posted, I would love to see the final quilt.
#44
I hope all the positive feedback has convinced you to keep working on this quilt. I too, think what you've got going is beautiful. Subtle can be gorgeous! And one thing I've learned from quilting---sometimes a customer would bring in a quilt that she no longer liked, somewhere along the process it 'turned on her' & some have even said they hated the quilt they were bringing in to be long-armed. It was always so fun to see their faces when it was finished & they came to pick it up --- quilting transformed it & they again loved the quilt. It happens all the time, so please keep going. You'll be so glad you did!!
#49
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lorain,oh
Posts: 642
our group did a mystery project last year. when I finished it I was unhappy-not enough contrast,- it seemed to just blend together! When we met & displayed them(12)-- almost everyone liked my"dreamy, waterclor quilt" the BEST. When I stepped back--I COULD SEE WHAT THEY WERE SEEING! Ithink the same will happen for you! Do the applique as suggested, add some dark, premade skinny bias tape, swirled to give some movement!!-IF you think it needs more at the end!
#50
I really like it!! If you want to have the fabrics stand out from each other, do it in the quilting - maybe heavy quilting on one fabric and none on the other or something like that! But I do like the low contrast! Nice job!!
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