Change Partners and Dance

 I tell my students all the time that it's easy to know when we get it right, and often we know when it isn't working, but when it's in that place where we are not sure... that's the hardest thing. It's the hardest thing because it could be OK. You have to decide whether to keep going or trash the idea and do something else.

This requires courage and some bit of fearlessness.

But when I look at the design wall quickly, what I see isn't birds, it's GREEN. Now, while I wanted to make a green quilt, the birds are also important. If what I see FIRST isn't the birds, then I have a problem.

Now you may disagree with me, and you are entitled to your opinion, but this is going to be MY quilt, and to paraphrase... "it's my party and I'll cry if I want to."

When I conceived the idea for this quilt, I ordered some light green fabrics, but I was so eager to get going that I started making blocks before my fabrics arrived. Those blocks had darker greens as background fabrics.

SO... I have decided to remake the bird blocks with the darker green backgrounds. It's actually faster for me to make an entire new block than to take the blocks apart and replace the background fabrics.

To wit:

This block...

Now looks like this.

This bird

became this one, and yes I know I pointed this one in the wrong direction.

and this guy

Now looks like this.

I'll be rebuilding several birds, but not all of them.

I'll be leaving this guy alone. If the backgrounds "read" as light, they will stay as they are.