10-4 Pixelated Groot
I am Groot!
18.5 x 40.5
The Project Quilting challenge this week was "pixel play".
I am not a big fan of Pixelated quilts and never really wanted to make one. But, I'm not one to give up on a challenge so I looked at options until I found a Groot image.
I like Groot and I sure hope he comes back (somehow) in this latest movie my husband is looking forward to so much. I decided to get my nerd on.
That was my last good decision on this piece. It's been a series of unfortunate choices from the very beginning.
- I chose to make it too small.
- I chose the wrong interfacing.
- That prompted a different decision in construction which was really wrong.
- The fabric kept fraying (bad choice)
- I kept trying to make it work and it got worse and worse.
- At a certain point, I felt it was a lost cause and didn't want to waste any more "good" fabric to the cause.
- I had a colonoscopy in the middle and lost time ( two days) working on this piece. I honestly think it wouldn't have helped it, but it made it impossible for me to start over.
- I like the image and will probably try it again sometime.
- I will use better interfacing and bigger squares.
- I will use better fabric.
- I will forgive myself for doing such a crappy job on this.
- I will take what I've learned and carry on.
- I will see this as an aberration to my larger body of work.
- Failure can teach too.
3 Comments:
I love your Groot and if you hadn't told us all that was wrong, we would have just assumed you meant it to be that way! But I do understand about the frustration of things not coming out as we had envisioned in our head. Still, Groot is great!
My geeky husband approves! From a distance it looks great - which is the point of pixels anyway, right? Fantastic work!
gah! I love him! great work!
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