Less is More - Off the Wall Friday

Now anybody who knows me knows that I can be a bit of a More is More person.  I mean why wouldn't I be when there are so many colors out there - so many fabrics out there - so much - well. . . .  .  .  everything out there! But this week, I got a lesson in the fact that maybe the adage  Less is More has some merit.

Yet another Hot Mess

You see, I handed in my blocked out piece to Elizabeth.  It was still a Hot Mess - but it was a Hot Mess that I had re-done 3 times so enough is enough already!!  Now you know when  a critique starts out, " I applaud you for attempting a bigger piece!" that there is a big BUT implied in there.  Its kinda like when you're on American Idol and the judges compliment your shoes.  (Yes that did happen to Kellie Pickler) .  Elizabeth was too nice to say that it was a Hot Mess - but she did clue me into the fact that I had two distinct ideas going on in the same place and that was probably one too many!  (ohhhhh so that's what's the problems been all along - light bulb moment!)

A Good Use of Masking tape

She was right - of course.  So with only 10 days to finish this baby up, I decided to just develop one idea and redid it - again.  Since the lesson was on underlying value, I thought I would take that quite literally and let the dark values hold the piece together.  Working today I finally got the piece together to sew and Ta-Da  with only one idea going on - its much stronger.  So Less is More.  I think with the added texture of the quilting it should end up being pretty good.

The added bonus of doing the same piece over 4 times?  You have a mountain of scraps just dyeing (grin) to be made into a nice pieced background for something!

So what have you been up to creatively?