I have had another go at the quilt which has
the small squares that didn't line up. I had put it away in disgust but still liked the effect from a distance. Having blurry distance vision helped.
I decided that I couldn't just let it lie around being another UFO. I got out the left-over bamboo batting, put a backing on using a piece of fabric that I had bought to trial as the optical illusion solid colour but rejected for the darker fuchsia colour, and sewed it all together.
I looked at the designs in the books I got from
Dijanne Cevaal and found one I liked. A wavy grid that I hoped would subtly disguise the non-matching corners.
Isn't it amazing how looking through a camera changes your view of something? I hadn't noticed the strong delineation between the blues, purples and the red. Luckily I had decided not to use if for the call for entries so I didn't get all stressed, as I would have if I had been entering it. Now I can just enjoy it.
Just when you think it is finished, you have to bind it, put a hanging sleeve and generally tidy it up. Still a few hours of work to do yet.
But the sewing has disguised the uneven squares quite adequately.
