“Ring Toss” Was an Exercise in Perseverance

I recently finished this quilt, Ring Toss.

After STARTING OVER TWICE I feel like a deserve a medal!

You can see the first rendition in my earlier post.

It brought me here. I didn’t like it and started to pick out seams and consider how to rearrange things.

I knew I had to cut many shapes smaller.

I created a strong diagonal line between the yellow and purple and was happy with it. I worked at developing it.

I was getting happy with it and then this happened!

This is the photo from the next day. What the what? My diagonal line is completely gone! I have NO IDEA how this happened. Did I work on it in my sleep or something??? (I have been know to do things in my sleep.) I was stumped.

And I didn’t like it. But, I thought there had to be a decent quilt in there if I could crop it into a nice composition. In the computer I rotated it in all directions and did a bunch of cropping.  When I went back to the actual fabric I cut it down by about half, and ended up with the finished quilt, shown below.

Jeepers! Do I win a prize or something? Or, at least a purple heart?

Actually, I now like it pretty well. Here’s a detail shot.

I dyed about half of the fabrics in this piece, including the ones with the black ovals.

I hope my next quilt comes together more easily!

Ellen Lindner
P.S. Have you ever completely started a quilt over?