Time for a New Palette

 I've been using these colors and fabrics for a couple of years now.  I still don't have enough blocks for the quilt I was picturing in my mind, but I was very dissatisfied with this last block.

Mine is the one in the middle row, one over from the right.

It's a nice block.  But it doesn't make me go, "yeah!"

So I put all the blocks from this group up on my little wall and took this photo.  They're nice.  But they don't make me go, "Wow!" anymore.  I think I'm just tired of the fabrics.  I do love them, but I need something new.  So I folded them up and put them and all the corresponding fabrics on a shelf and got out some new stuff.

Stricker's Pond, Madison, Wisconsin

Early July, 2014

My daughter took this pic of me in front of the sunset over Stricker's Pond a couple of nights ago.

I thought it was a good way to say goodbye for a while to those fabrics that I love.  I'll go back to them sometime, but I need to give them a rest.

Next post:  some new colors!

Mistakes and Blanks

My design wall is blank today.  I took down the stuff I was working on so I could work on my cutting table.

I cut out this for the latest thing I'm working on and realized that I shouldn't have cut it out yet.

I'm working with this and I'm angry with myself because now I've wasted this big hunk of this wonderful fabric.  Of course, it's not really wasted, I'll use it for something else.  But it still irks me.


I'm also using these fabrics for this project.



At Judy's blog, here, there are other postings of design walls.  Hopefully there are more successful projects than I have going on this Monday.