John Denver sang a song,
"Some days are diamonds,
some days are stones."
The same can be true with some of
my quilting efforts.
I've been working on finishing up
some older projects and I must admit,
sometimes in my hast I miss
paying attention to some details.
One phrase you hear in quilting making
is there is no right or wrong design.
It's just whatever makes your own heart sing,
creating your own song.
That may be true, but what
if you finish a quilt
and you're just a bit disappointed.
I finished sewing my broken dishes swap blocks.
from 2016, organized by
Barb from
Fun With Barb.
The quilt went together beautifully.
The blocks had been perfectly sewn
by lots of dfferent quilters.
I set the blocks together with some lovely new
French General fabrics.
Atelier de France
Debi, my machine quilter, used a simple over-all
I loved how it looked.
It kept the focus on the fabrics and the blocks.
But there is something that can happen to dishes.
They can be broken or shattered.
After sewing the whole quilt together
and finally hanging it on a vertical plain,
(I only have a design floor)
I could see that my design idea of having the blocks
and the alternating squares forming
perfect radiating diamonds was shattered.
Hmmmm.
I felt very disappointed.
Instead, the darkest ring had two different looks.
My original paper drawing didn't
show how the reds in the blocks
and the darker red setting block
would react with one another.
I didn't even see what was happening
until after I had sewn it together.
Well, it's done.
It's not my usual
uniformed, structured, balanced style,
but it does remind me
how I feel when a favorite plate, bowl,
or dish slips from my hands,
shatters to pieces
and then can not be put back together again.
Well. in reality,
I'm not shattered by the quilt's finish.
Disappointed?
Yes, a little.
It simply took it's own path
and created something new and different.
Some quilts are diamonds
and some quilts are _______
(well, unique)
Until Next Time-
Kyle
