Broken Dishes--Oops!

John Denver sang a song,

"Some days are diamonds,

some days are stones."

The same can be true with some of 

my quilting efforts.

I've been working on finishing up

some older projects and I must admit,

sometimes in my hast I miss 

paying attention to some details.

One phrase you hear in quilting making 

is there is no right or wrong design.

It's just whatever makes your own heart sing,

creating your own song.

That may be true, but what

if you finish a quilt

and you're just a bit disappointed.

I finished sewing my broken dishes swap blocks.
 from 2016, organized by
Barb from Fun With Barb.

The quilt went together beautifully. 

 The blocks had been perfectly sewn

by lots of dfferent quilters.

I set the blocks together with some lovely new

French General fabrics.

Atelier de France

Debi,  my machine quilter, used a simple over-all

 feathery pattern.

I loved how it looked.

It kept the focus on the fabrics and the blocks.

But there is something that can happen to dishes.

They can be broken or shattered.

After sewing the whole quilt together

and finally hanging it on a vertical plain,

(I only have a design floor)

I could see that my design idea of having the blocks

and the alternating squares forming

perfect radiating diamonds was shattered.

Hmmmm.

I felt very disappointed.

Instead, the darkest ring had two different looks.

My original paper drawing didn't 

show how the reds in the blocks

and the darker red setting block

would react with one another.

 I didn't even see what was happening
until after I had sewn  it together.

Well, it's done.

It's not my usual 

uniformed, structured, balanced style,

but it does remind me 

how I feel when a favorite plate, bowl,

or dish slips from my hands,

shatters to pieces 

and then can not be put back together again.

Well. in reality, 

I'm not shattered by the quilt's finish.

Disappointed?
Yes, a little.

It simply took it's own path

and created something new and different.

Some quilts are diamonds

and some quilts are _______

(well, unique)

Until Next Time-

Kyle