I went through two drawers full of blue and gray denim quilt blocks and pieced them together in rows of 7 blocks. I thought I could make a denim chenille quilt for my Etsy shop that consisted of 7 rows of 7 blocks (all of the previous ones were 6 rows of 6 blocks). I put the rows together, and I realized that I had two different shades of gray. The inconsistency gave me a bad case of the irritation. Here’s the before:
So I took some of them apart and took some of my remaining blocks apart just enough to fix it so it’s all the dark shade of gray. The end result is now only 6 rows of 7 blocks, but still a good size and the colors look more uniform.
I thought back to my real estate class. It taught that if all houses in a sub division look the same, then the value increases. You may support someone’s right to choose to paint their own house purple, but the reality is that it will bring the value of the whole block or sub division down. That’s why those pesky HOA’s exist. I guess they’re a necessary evil, even though I really wish people could do as they wished with their own houses. Same went with this quilt. I have a better chance of selling it if the rows looked better.
So irritating when mistakes cannot be seen until after completion. As for houses, too many of the same design can look awfully boring, unless you're talking about something like the Royal Crescent in Bath.
ReplyDeleteIt is irritating, that’s why I didn’t put the rows together yet lol.
DeleteYou do such good sewing with the quilt. I have never tried it because the quilters I knew were so strict about how it must be done and it looked more like work than fun. I had a friend who did crazy quilting and that was actually more work because of the embroidery and beading, but the pieces could be any pattern she wanted.
ReplyDeleteI know about quilters like that. The main thing they preach that I don’t like is that you must need a rotary cutter. I am so afraid of cutting my finger off with one of those. I brought this up in a quilting group online, and a lot of them said that if I think that will happen then it will (gee thanks) and that I’m better off using regular scissors. Some said, our ancestors didn’t have rotary cutter
DeleteVery nice. I've never made a quilt.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
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