As I quilted the flowers on the graduation quilt for Claire, I LOVED how they looked…
….giving JUST the right amount of color in the center of each white block.
THEN I HUNG IT ON MY DESIGN WALL AND STEPPED BACK FROM IT…..
From a distance, the flowers disappeared, and the yellow centers looked like blobs of color. It looked BLAH!
I went from YEA to UH-OH!!
That night was my quilt guild meeting, so I took the quilt to show-and-tell and asked their advice.
One suggested quilting another line or two on the outside of each flower to give it a bit more definition, and I honestly thought that was what I would do.
But then, two or three others said this….. “She is going to be using it up close, and THAT is what matters. Not what it looks like from afar!!”
Their words were the perfect reminder to me that this quilt was made to be used….not to hang as a decoration.
This interaction also reinforced how important our creative friends are to our craft.
I leave you with this thought….
Sometimes the quilt doesn’t need fixing. Sometimes the quilter just needs encouragement!
So, go forth….and be encouraged!!
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