Last Friday, I posted about my first exploration into the Fabulous Feather challenge from Angela Walters.
Overall, I was pleased with my first foray into feathers.
The second lesson was the feather meander. Since it had the word “meander” in it, I assumed that it would be easy…..
NOT….SO….MUCH!!!
I started out with confidence and the first couple of rounds were great. Then the rot set in and I simply couldn’t figure out which direction I needed to head to make the feather….
Apparently, if you turn the wrong direction, you get stuck!!!
I pulled out the whiteboard and went thru it step-by-step…..
Okay….maybe I see what I was doing wrong!!!
Things started looking better…..
…but every once in a while, I had a moment. I am not sure exactly what happened in this corner…..
Angela always says that your eye will be drawn to a gap more than it will to a mistake and her observation was proved when I looked at the final piece…..
That looks pretty good….even I do say so myself!!
Have you had observations like this before???
That is beautiful, Frances!
Thanks so much Jessica!!! I am having fun learning more about FMQ!!
I do a lot of zentangle. Almost always, early on I’ll make a boo boo, which looks really obvious. But I continue on and fill in my design, and when I’m done, I almost always don’t notice my mistake anymore. So yes, similar observation. Thank you for describing what happened. Now I’m a little less hesitant to try my hand at FMQ.
It really is true that many of our mistakes are never noticed by anyone else!!! We can all be SO hard on ourselves!!!
You are an inspiration. Its indeed- GOOD!