If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I’ve occasionally cut up quilts and rearranged them. So, when I decided this quilt needed some revision, I decided to give it a go.
The starting quilt, Beet Salad. Certainly not terrible, but it wasn’t exciting me either.
Beet Salad
Usually, when I cut something up I do it with great intention. I aim for diagonal cuts that will show off the best parts of the quilt. This time, however, I cut it up into approximately 5″ squares. That’s probably where I went wrong.
This photo shows an early rearrangement. It doesn’t look that different, right?
Soon, I decided to use only the pieces that had two colors. This is what I came up as my piecing plan.
I wasn’t sure that it was better, but it did have more energy and I planned to add applique here and there. But then I got confused as I was piecing and created something different.
It was really too hideous for me to even take a photo. But, above you can probably tell that I added a border using those singe color pieces. And I stitched over it with a lot of black thread. It was all UGLY!
I briefly entertained the idea of trying to improve it. Which is the only reason I took the photo above. In it I was auditioning some lighter versions of pink and purple. Ugh! By now I had lost my interest in this experiment and was a little bit mad at the result. I didn’t want it hanging around any more and decided to toss it. (Actually, I saved it just for free motion quilting practice.)
Oh well, on to the next project.
Have you ever cut anything up?
Actually, I did it again, recently. I’ll show you that soon.
Ellen Lindner
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