Well last night about 10 pm, it was over...my quilting life had hit a snag and I was no longer creative..I had aged out. (Says my man...do you always have to be so dramatic??) I decided to work on that cuddle, jungle quilt from earlier on..just to relax. Well after the blocks were together, I started the borders. Now I do not like to use my good fabric. I know that the New Year was to bring a change in that...but it is still hard. I cut some borders from the fabrics below..my good fabrics..and they did not work. Cutting good, favorites and they do not work????.. Irritability was upon me. It was now 11pm.
I could not make this work. This "relaxing" nothing quilt. At midnight I gave up and got into bed in a huff. My husband said that it was a shame that I didn't have a passion that I could really enjoy instead of getting pissy. Like, he makes mistakes in his tennis tournaments and in his woodworking and he doesn't act like this..OMG..to have that kind of easy going disposition.... In the morning light, I realized that there was not enough neutral space for the eye to rest and when I added 2 and a half more inches of the green to the top and bottom, it was better. Then Kaffe to the rescue with his awesome stripes and it was done by noon. Sigh....
Not brilliant, but done and presentable and certainly not worth getting crabby about...unless of course a person happens to be that kind.....
2 comments:
You get 4 thumbs up over here. My 9 year old just said it is "awesome"! I love the stripes on the border - I have that fabric in another colorway and I have been afraid to cut into it. I now think I might use it in a border. Have a great, rainy weekend.
Karen E.
Amazing how clarity often comes the following day. Just so you know, you're not the only one that gets crabby when it's not working out. It's looking good.
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