Questionable Values...

I did manage to finish another one up amid my bouncing from project to project. I'm still on the fence with this one.

"Questionable Values" in Kona Robin's Egg, Tarragon, Ash. Bound in Coal.

I had high hopes for this quilt. I sketched. I worked up a pattern. I even hand-painted some of the squares when I ran out of coordinating fabric. But when it all came together, I wasn't thrilled.

Don't get me wrong, I love the design, it's just that the colors, which looked so marvelous stacked on my cutting table, don't do it justice. The Tarragon and Ash are just too close in value (hence the name) so they get mushed together, making the blue pop more than I intended. Kona Ash has a tendency to suck the life out of its neighbors if they're not strong enough, and I think that's what happened here. If I make it again, I'll go for higher contrast.

So on one hand I'm happy that it's done and I can add another quilt to my pathetically short list of finishes for this year. On the other, I wish I had a little more love for it, but they don't all look as great in real life as they do in our heads, do they?

Maybe it'll grow on me.

Self-discipline was never my strong suit...

I know I said I had to finish a couple other things before I dove into my Jane Sassaman fabric, but it was just sitting there, begging to be chopped up. Taunting me, even.

These blocks (and the possibilities that this fussy-cut fabric presents) are really cool, though there isn't enough contrast for that top center one to work. That one will have to wait for another project. I'm purposely not doing the kaleidoscope effect on the black blocks because the repeat was smaller, and I think it lets the flower blocks pop a little more. Given I'm just playing at this point, that's all subject to change.

I need to do a few more of these to a) get it out of my system or b) make a complete quilt. Then I'll go back to my to-do list!

Dear Jane...

I have read your book and become inspired.

It's about time I broke into my stash of your fabrics -- I've been hoarding saving them, as Foghorn Leghorn says, "for just such an emergency," and now the wheels are turning.

I just have to finish a couple other things first.