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Avery's Quilt: Step 3- Cloth Development

Baby Quilt

Step 3: Journey to the cloth

As the journey piecing fabric strips continued, a pattern began to form.
From colors combined with strip a cloth began to form.
Once all strips were sewn together. I took a step back in viewing the results
however,  found my felts of strike with a syndrome
"does not feel quite right ".
I'm to think most timely projects, at some point, does
seem to carry those periods with uncertainly. And as to where one has to step back
and rethink with the course.
As my strips formed a wider & longer cloth,
I stepped back to get a feel of what  all the sewn seams had resulted to
and  with feeling it was not exactly how I wanted it yet.

  

How a little diversion and change of scenery can help among those moments. And once I did just that, and allowed my thoughts to clear of the clutter :) seems the juices returned and back running again to creative further.



New Results: A new pattern
I discover a different path today along with a few cuts to my cloth as I began to a few changes with arrangements to those piecing. The methods of those cuts ( shown below) and therefore began to take on a change and shape and more to a liking view.



Border to add
The 2 cuts provided me with 3 new pieces to play with. With their arrangements at random play by turning them in opposite directions formed a new look and began to please my eyes among those playing results. At this point I decided to also add a wider border as to rejoin those cuts I had just made. With the arrangement now turned and a wide border added the entire layout would change.
I made 2 more cuts with the yellow fabric and rejoined the new pieces that has resulted in my cuts. I joined the widest panels first and then joined the side panel to them.
What had become boring random strips now made an entire new cloth to work with among this course of change.

Change of scenery and more pleasing to the eye.



The wider border rejoined and rearranged the cuts 
and tonight juices flowing again. 

 

And I have a few more ideas still brewing.






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