Monday, November 6, 2017

Confusing Colors

I have been working on Lance's Wildlife quilt.  Here's my progress:


Twelve square-in-a-square fussy cut deer pictures, surrounded with diamonds.  Now the tricky part.  There are 6 different fabrics, so I didn't understand why this was so difficult!!  I wanted NO REPEATS of similar blocks--ie, no two with the same colored diamonds matched to the same colored corner triangles.  I wanted each of the fabrics to be spread out within the quilt, with good contrasts and unique colorizations, is that too much to ask???  I cannot say how many times I switched diamonds on different blocks, or traded the corner triangles in the squares-in-a-square.  I even added a 7th fabric, one set of diamonds, and one set of corner triangles, and thought that would solve everything.  A little extra diversity!  But no, it didn't help all that much!  Even the arrangement in the photo above is not the final arrangement!  (Not enough contrast in the bottom row!)  I have spent at least 3 hours trying to figure out and balance colors!  I finally just gave up and found a somewhat acceptable arrangement, knowing that there will be black corners on the diamonds, so the diamonds don't actually touch the corner triangles or each other.  I am hoping when all is said and done, it'll look decent!



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