A group of friends got together and formed a quilt group, and invited me to be a member. Every other month or so, one of the group members would present a project for us all to do. I loved belonging to this group, because it gave me motivation to actually finish the project before we met again...until we did this quilt.
One of the group members had seen a "five and dime" (nickels stacked on dimes, if you look at it sideways) quilt at the local quilt store. She didn't buy the pattern, but brought a picture of the example for us to use to make ours.
She also brought fabric for us to make our quilts from. Usually I don't like yellow, but I chose it because it was the only long piece left.
After assembling my quilt, I realized I mistook the proportions of the quilt. The yellow strip (the "dime") is waaayyyy too wide, and the nickels are too fat and stubby looking. Some of them are even too narrow and skinny. And, there's not enough variety to suit my eye - you can see I didn't mix up the blocks nearly enough. I extremely dislike the color yellow, and there's just too much of it in this quilt, plus the white nickels totally draw your eye away. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
Yeah, it's not a quilt that will be finished anytime soon. In fact, to take a picture of it, I had to dig waaayyy down in the basket of unfinished projects to even find it!
At least Alexia likes riding her "horsey" on it...
Go here to look at the other ugly quilts, then vote for the ugliest:
http://piecenquilt.blogspot.com/2010/05/ugly-quilt-contest-begins-today.html
3 comments:
I think it's still cute!
Maybe it would be a perfect Yen and Euro Quilt!! You never know where in the world yellow might be in and coins might be just the right proportions!
I was prepared for something horrible, but this isn't THAT bad. I actually really like the stipey part!
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