Kwiltr

I find the quilting breathes life into every quilt. Don't give up on it until it's quilted!

Watson

Thanks to everyone for your opinions.
They've certainly given me some food for thought.

I think I'll continue on with it although I have no idea how I'll quilt it at this point.....with coloured thread or with matching thread? Or contrasting thread? Not sure I have the nerve to do contrasting.

I was thinking of doing square spirals in the negative space? Thoughts?

Watson

Pennyhal

Yep. Have one now sitting in my sewing room. Have no idea what I'm going to do with it.

Chester the bunny

Just quilt it and remember that the Canadian government paid $1.8 million dollars for this years ago.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=voice...sAQIMw#imgrc=_

Art is subjective I suppose and your quilt is a piece of art, on a smaller scale.

SherylM

I'm working on one now for a very special cousin, and I was so unhappy with my fabric choices when I had the top almost completely sewn together that I decided to go buy more (different) fabric and re-do the whole thing. Fortunately, my husband was OK with me doing that because he knows how much I want this quilt to be right.

It wasn't just my fabric choices though - I had also sewn a couple of blocks in with the fabric backwards (life's been a bit stressful lately... ), and it's just going to be easier to make a new one than to fix everything. The pattern has the blocks sewn on the diagonal, so I'm cutting the first one up into HST's and 5" squares so I can use them in another quilt.

I'm much happier with my fabric choices this time around. BTW, I love that quilt pattern and hope it grows on you after you get it quilted - you did a great job on it!

Polliwog

This quilt is calling for brightly colored variegated thread. Do a search for "Caryl Bryer Fallert" to be inspired.

sprice

I do the same as Homespun. I give it to Project Linus. Just because I don't like it--doesn't mean some kid won't think it is wonderful. For sure, I don't have the same taste as a teenaged boy.

Tom W

More often that I like. I eventually finish them, sometimes not as originally planned :-) Some go to charity or are gifted to someone who expresses and interest. I take them to guild meetings for 'show and tell' and put them in the charity bin or on the freebie table and sometimes by the time I've finished it, I love it all over again. It's a voyage.

Divokittysmom

Yes!! It's a UFO!! Maybe some day I will resurrect it but for now, it's 1 of 3 UFO's.

RST

Happens all the time.

The trick is to learn how to assess the best thing to do -- switch the original plan to something totally different, tweak it just a bit, or go ahead and finish it trusting that you will like it when done. My most recent experience was the Gravity quilt blocks I made. The individual blocks are beautiful but I just wasn't loving the effect of them all put together as in the pattern. My solution was to break it up into several smaller projects -- 2 table runners, a wall quilt, and 2 smaller quilts. I'm happier with how the blocks look, I'm using what was an investment in time and materials, but I'm not spending a huge amount of additional time doing the finishing and quilting on a very large quilt that just doesn't quite work for me.

With the WIP you posted, I think it will all come together with some great quilting -- lots of space to create some texture and subtle pattern from whatever type of quilting you decide to do. Finish it up, set it aside for a while, and them come back and see how you feel about it. If you don't love it, post photos on social media and whichever friends seem to like it best get a nice Christmas or birthday gift. I guarantee that someone will find it works perfectly for their modern/ midcentury modern space.