Home Work

 We've all been there. When the house gets just a little bit messier than you can stand and you have to stop everything and clean it all up so that's what I focused on last week. 

I cleaned up the various places in the house where stuff had piled up. I tamed the paper tiger in the office and did all the shredding. I got all the paperwork together to get my taxes done, and I actually dusted all the rooms in the house!

That and I did my taxes.

After that was done, I decided to review an idea for a quilt I had that didn't work. Back in December I was making a Macnas quilt using Jewel-toned colors and grays. It just didn't work. You can see that here.

I wanted to see if I could incorporate some of those jewel-gray pairs with some of the other jewel toned blocks I had cut with some white and neutral lights. I thought it would be fun if I could arrange the blocks like the Blitzen quilt. 

I put some of the gray pairs on the wall with some the jewel toned blocks and some of the lights I had already cut. The result was underwhelming, as you can see above. I had hoped that diagonal rows of colors would work with different fabrics, but it didn't. I knew I would have to make the diagonal rows of blocks in the same fabric to get what I wanted.

In order to make the blocks the way I had wanted, I had had to take apart some of the blocks I had made previously.

Here I have removed the pieces that weren't working and I have made three diagonal rows of blocks - purple, blue and green. The photo is dark, but the idea works and I will carry on with it.