I was really happy with the way things were progressing until I came back from holiday a couple of weeks ago. I had taken the pieces for the zig zag border to work on, but had left the top at home. I looked at it again with fresh eyes, and although I liked the centre circle, I was not really happy with the star flowers or the colours...
It was too co-ordinated, too blue! too contrived looking for my taste, I normally make really scrappy quilts with lots of colours and almost never use blue - this is really out of my comfort zone! I didn't want to work on it and seriously considered abandoning it, or starting again from scratch. After a lot of thought and some advice from friends, I decided to remove the red stars and add in some more colours. Yes, I like this much better! It has a more muted antique feel to it now. I have replaced the star flowers with some broderie perse.
Everything is just thread basted at the moment, you won't see any of the background around the flowers when I have finished, I may add some outline embroidery details too.
There is a lot going on in the centre of this quilt, I will add some blues and more greens when we get to the corner baskets to balance the colours. I have still not decided if I will use my original zig zag border, I have an idea for something different! I also want to go back and add some embroidery to the centre circle. I am glad I changed my mind, I am really enjoying working on this again!