Oh No Noel!

So this was good, but I felt the NOEL letters were too blocky.

I made some taller, slightly thinner NOEL letters. I wasn't worried about the color, but I was just working on the shape. These did not thrill me.

So I trimmed down the O from the first word, are reworked the E from the first word into a lower case e.

I wasn't real thrilled with this either. Yeah,  I know the word isn't centered, but it still bugged me.

When I get stuck, I set the issue aside and move to something else. In this case, I sewed the trees together,, which meant I had to add fabric to the tops and in some cases, the bottoms of the trees and then I sewed them all together. I also replaced the big box with the bigger, busier box. Then I went to bed.

The next morning I got up made breakfast and then went straight into the studio. I was still in my nightgown and bathrobe.

In the end, I made four Ns. The original one is at the upper left. I knew I wanted the new N to be a bit taller and thinner, so I made the one at the upper right. This was a test, so the fabric didn't bother me. I liked it. The one on the lower left was too fat and the fabric was too busy. The one on the lower right made the cut.

Then I made another O, because I hadn't been in love with the original. The e is the same as the first one, and then I threw up a piece of red fabric for the l. And I made the letter O jump. 

But I didn't like the fabric in the O, so I did another one, and then I made a fancy E. 

My son didn't like the jumping O, and the N was too fat, so I took it apart and made it skinnier. But the L was too dark.

I decided to add the umlaut above the E, and I cut the letter L from one of the legs of the too busy N.

In the middle of all of this, a convo with Julie induced me to widen the design slightly.

My son said, "SEW!"

Rosie, why are the birds in the quilt? Because I like them.