I have this quilt pinned and ready to quilt but the truth is I don't like it much. I used Ricky Timm's Convergence Quilt technique but I somehow missed the boat. Too much contrast or not enough slices -- whatever the cause it doesn't work in its current incarnation. And I'm not willing to pick it apart and try again. And I'm not going to pitch it because I love the colors and the borders so I'm going to try to ressurect it. I have some vivid hand dyed red fabric that has veining like a close up of flower petals so I'm going to cut out some large hibiscus flowers to applique over the not-quite-nice center panel. If you can't fix it, hide it I always say.
The second photos is where I intend it to look like when I'm done with it.
Work remaining to be done: Quilt background, threadpaint the hibiscus then raw-edge applique them down. Bead the stamens. Bind.
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