In preparation for my Quilt & Book talk at a local library tomorrow, I am going back to look at some of my early quilts such as this one that I made in 2002:
I learned so much making this quilt. It started when I found the “perfect” border fabric to go with our guest room. The entire quilt was designed around this border fabric. However, once I completed the piecing, I realised that the proposed border print just did not work as it competed with the quilt pattern. Five years later and that border fabric is still sitting in my stash…
Angela says
Oh, thank GOD — I’m not the only one that has happened to. You buy a focus fabric, choose all of the colors of the quilt to go with it. Then realize the focus fabric doesn’t work, but the rest does! Guess you just need to learn to trust the quilt sometimes and to be willing to make a change. (also, that your inspiration fabric doesn’t HAVE to go into your quilt)
Helen says
Lets have a look at that border fabric then!
I do the opposite – buy fabric for a particular project then use it for something else forgetting that its meant to go into a half finished other project then have to go and replace it!