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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Self doubt?

One of the many things I have learned since I started quilting is that there will always be a point in putting a quilt together that I will look at it and think I have made a horrible mistake.
Not to brag on myself but I have a really good eye for color. I think it is like some people having perfect pitch, some people just see color. I can look at something and know if it will match something else I have at home. It is almost like the colors hurt my eyes if they aren't right. This is both good and bad. The good part is obvious, but the bad is that I have a very hard time doing scrappy. I love scrappy, and I know once all of the colors are in the quilt they will all match. The problem comes when I an assembling the individual blocks and the colors within the blocks do not match until the other blocks join them. I know this time will come and I just have to push ahead, tell myself that I am being too picky and stick to the plan. Last night I worked on the Kaleidoscope. This is the Ricky Tims pattern, or I guess it is more of a technique. It isn't new, I just missed it when it first came out. It is not the Kaleidoscope block. It is using stratas to cut mirror image sets. One big image. So last night I told myself that I was being silly and I did not need to re-do any of the stratas. I pushed myself to get to the assembling point so I could get an idea if the finished product. I told myself it is just a top, no one else would know what it could have been it I had chosen colors better... Guess what? It is so pretty! I will finish the assembling today and see if I can figure out how to post a picture.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Kristy! I found your blog while doing a search for Ricky Tim's Kaleidoscope quilts. I recently made one along with a few other bloggers that were making one at the same time. Hope to see a picture of yours someday.

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