First project of the year was the January Le Petite Project: Mon Ami (Schnibbles patter by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co).
To be 100% honest, this isn't a pattern I would have chosen to make on my own, but part of the whole point of joining a club like Le Petite is to branch out and try new patterns, methods, and fabrics. I had a Moda 1974 by Urban Chiks jelly roll in my stash ...
... and since I love the colors and they have some great coordinating light and dark prints, I thought I'd do some early stash busting and use it for this quilt. Before even untying that precious "Moda" band from the jelly roll, I took the time to plan everything out in EQ6 and even went so far as to order two matching prints off Ebay for the border and binding ...
... I'm sure you can see where this is going. I spent a lot of time on Saturday and Sunday putting together about 15 blocks in four of the six color-ways ...
... and I HATE it! I've tried most of my usual tricks: walking away for the evening and starting with "fresh eyes" in the morning, playing around with the color combinations, making a few more blocks to see if it makes a difference ...
I just plain old don't like it. I think that the colors appeared softer in the EQ6 mock up, but on the board the lights and darks blend together and the quilt is just too ... noisy.
After sitting and staring at it for probably a half hour, I even asked my hubby who stopped in my sewing room to iron a shirt. He suggested that rather than staggering the colors to just have rows with all the same colors ...
... so I rearranged the blocks for the 100th time (PS - hubby says I exaggerate all the time, so he takes any number I tell him and either multiples or divides by three. I guess in all honesty you could say that I rearranged the blocks for the 33.33rd time) ... slept on it again last night, didn't even look at it before I went back to work this morning, came home hoping to see it with "fresh eyes" ... and still HATE it.
I really hate doing this, but I think I'm going to scrap the project and start fresh, or at least put the blocks aside to be pulled apart later and used for something else. What do you think? Is is salvageable? Would you scrap it? Would you do as hubby suggested while I was complaining about it earlier and re-purpose them as individual mug rugs so as not to waste anything? What would you do?
For now, I have to put them away 'cuz I can't stand to look at them. After playing around in EQ6, I came up with this design, using Moda's Aster Manor by 3 Sisters, which I already have in my stash.
I'm thinking it's a much better alternative, and it definitely looks a lot more like something I'd do, but at the same time, I'm disappointed because the 1974 line was a different color palette and I was hoping to love it ...
{Raspberries, again}
Ok - thanks for listening to me whine. :)
2 comments:
I agree with you - just seems off.
Heck, send them to me! I'll finish it and love it. dmj53(at)hotmail(dot)com
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