For Better or Worse

The wall hanging of the English paper-pieced tumbling blocks is finished (and hanging on the wall in front of me/behind the computer monitor as I type).

Have you ever made something you know isn't exactly "right," whatever that is, but you finished it up anyway, for better or worse?

Yeah, this is one of those things.

I realized some things as I went along, but just carried on.  I'm okay with that because I know I'll look back in time, be it a month or five years from now, and know that I have learned since.  It's like a progress marker kind of thing.

Gee, and you just thought it was a wall hanging.  ;)

• I enjoyed paper piecing these diamonds by hand.  It was a first for me, and I found it relaxing and a nice change of pace to do some "slow stitching."
• I don't think I would have the patience to make a whole quilt that way, however.
• I like applique.  Again, the hand stitching is relaxing.
• As far as fabric choices, I probably picked the wrong print(s), the one with the parasols especially.  The illusion loses something because the eye is drawn to those big green eyeball-y things.  
• The background is not quite right.  Too much of one color or value perhaps?  A solid may have been better.  I do like that batik though.
• Snakeskin print binding rocks!
• I see more illusion blocks/quilts in the future.

And so, you live and learn.

Straight-line quilting can be seen best from the back.  Keeping it simple.

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More music to make you wanna dance, this new one by Justin Timberlake, who seems to be channeling Michael Jackson.  I like it.