Thursday, May 27, 2010

I Finally Made A Decision

As you can see...there is an empty blank space here in the middle of my design wall. I finally made a decision to take down the class reunion quilt and just put it away for a while...meaning I guess I will keep it for myself and finish it at a later date. I SOOOOOOO appreciate all you gals ideas, suggestions and pep talks on my last post. I just CAN NOT figure out what went wrong with me on this one...I have spent the whole week trying and applying a lot of the different suggestions you all gave...sigh.....it's like my creative brain refuses to light up and make a definite decision!!!! You'll never know how much it meant to me for you all to take the time to study and ponder my quilt to help me in making the decisions to get it finished. A special BIG thank you to TERRY from Terry Treasures blog who spent extra time with her PAINT program sketching up several color variations and emailing them to me......and to you to MARY (no blog) for your ideas and Paint examples! I think I need to get me one of these programs!! So as a thank you to all of you who left a comment about my class reunion quilt on my previous post I am going to draw a name this evening and send you a little goody!! How about that???


The week was not a total loss...I received these lovely goodies from Christina from A Few Scraps blog. W-a-y back when...she featured a Pay it Forward participation. I was one of the three and I totally forgot about it. She sent a great potholder and I'm assuming she created this cute little card too. Christina included a pair of dainty danglee earrings and some vintage needles wrapped up so neat and tidy. Thank you soooo much Christina. If any of my great bloggy friends would like to participate in a Pay It Forward here with me...just let me know here on this post and I will whip you up a little something and send it to 3 of you. I'm sure most of you know the details.....you have a whole year to send out your 3 after you receive mine in the mail. It doesn't have to be anything big and major....just a nice little quilty token....so come on....sign up!!


And remember a couple of my posts back......I commented that I would KILL to own these 2 Texas quilt books.........well, there are wonderful bloggy fairies out there in blogland!! My bloggy fairy doesn't have a blog of her own but she sent me an email stating she would love to send me a pair of my most FAVORITE quilty books of all time if I wanted them...HECK YE-OW!
Thank you soooooo much Mary from California. I am sooooo glad to have my own and won't have to check them out at the library anymore. I will treasure these forever!!!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

?????...WHAT IS WRONG...?????

Is it THIS QUILT or is there something wrong with ME???? I swear (yes, I have done some of that with this quilt) I just can not seem to get it together with this one. I have stalled...I have rearranged....I have literally covered it up so I couldn't even see it as I walked through the room!!! I FINALLY got the houses arranged the way I liked and FINALLY sewed the top together. This class reunion quilt has worked a number on me...I don't know why really, I guess I'm afraid of the worse case scenario...no one will like it, resulting in low bids equals total embarrassment to me. (but then again, if no one bids on it I get to bring it home) I am aware that a lot of people don't like this type of quilt but I felt I needed to make one that expressed ME and how I felt about my little hometown. I think the little houses represent the wonderful community we all grew up in together.
This quilt started out a lot more colorful than it is now. I realized that maybe I should tone it down some as to not just SCARE everyone with the brightness of it....LOL....I think everyone is expecting something that looks like what their grandmother would make.....boy, won't they be surprised......but then again I WAS voted as 'most unpredictable'!!!
ANYWAY......I would SOOOOO love for you guys to take a minute....look/study this quilt and give me your brutally honest opinion......yes, be honest.....you ARE NOT going to hurt my feelings! Here is my thinking.....it seems TOO busy to me. Do I not have enough break between the top and the flying geese border. I'm thinking the black/white check sashing is still busy enough that it all runs together.....???? Have I worked it to death....??? Red sashing was TOO harsh.......should I put another row of something before I add the flying geese....oh yes, and these flying geese are toned down from the first ones I made and I feel it looks better, but.....maybe the flying geese are too much???? I should do something else??? Should I just finish it the way it is and be done with it??? Maybe I have just looked at it too long!!
Soooooooo, what do you think?????? Mr. Brown Dirt is SOOOOO ready for me to just be finished with it...LOL.....he is tired of listening to me whine about it!!!