This was my first selection of "orphan blocks" for the Kitchen Sink Quilting class. Pretty varied, probably too varied.
I narrowed it down a little, and this is the picture I sent in to our teacher, Maria Shell.
During the class, I worked on some possible combinations with the background solids I'd cut.
I tried a lot of combinations, but got too wedded to some of the solids placements. Especially the part on the lower right. I did like how the 3-d cube was floating on these blue/greens, but I decided that I love that block TOO much to throw in with a bunch of other stuff, I want to make something just for it.
I took out the background solids
And then I added back in some of the bright crazy pieced blocks.
This is how it looks at the moment, I've added in some other orphans I hadn't tried yet on the left side. And I took out the crazy pieced blocks, they are just "too much" for the rest of the blocks. Too busy, too colorful, too much.
It's definitely a process. I hope some of the other BAMers learned to work through the process rather than just using patterns.
ReplyDeleteIt seemed like some of them did, but there were a couple who were still struggling with the concept. Definitely a new skill to learn.
ReplyDeleteYou had done this type of thing before, right?
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