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It's Over - Sometimes the Dragon Wins...

After several more tries of suggestions offered by everyone (and I thank you all again - I gave it everything I had, even through the resultant migraine) and a very long discussion with my better half, I've decided to throw in the towel on matching the pattern on this nine-patch. I have to pick my battles carefully and wisely, and as much as it pains me to compromise my artistic vision on this one, I guess I just have to let it go - at least until I gain more experience. I have several yards of this fabric, and if it won't cooperate this time, I may find the solution another time. In the meantime, I've done some more homework, and found that our machine has two decorative stitches that resemble the two patterns on the opposite sides of this fabric nearly identically. So I'm going to start over, redesign (perhaps redimension), separate the patches with sashing, and embroider the complementing decorative stitches on the sashing as a border around the patches in the dominant color of the fabric. I'm rationalizing it as a *different* artistic vision - one I may very likely have discovered/come up with after the fact for later use anyway. Now, I'll put the original idea on the back burner, and hopefully use *that* later on.

I appreciate everyone's efforts and suggestions in trying to help me.

Doc Smith

-- Oh, the pain... THE PAIN...

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Dr. Zachary Smith
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Have you considered quilting from the back around the patterns you like?? quilting from the back can be quite effective. The dragon quilt is done that way. quilted around the flames and softens the front of the quilt quite nicely. ruby

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Ruby

You know, Doc, it just may be that the patterns, prints or weaves that you have attempted to line up are not identical or consistent and Nothing is going to make them that way. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Polly

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Polly Esther

What Polly said. :)

Look, Doc, a lot of life is hard and uncomfortable. We quilt/design/ art (yes, I'm using art as a verb) as a way to go to a place where beauty dominates. When art starts being hard and uncomfortable, it's becoming way t oo much like real life. And that's not how it should be. The only place where tiny little squares match up perfectly is on a screen. Nobody makes that kind of precision by hand; it's too mechanical. The charm and beauty of hand work (and that includes sewing machine work, which is done by hand) is that it's not mechanical. It's not fresh off the printer or identical to a thousand others just like it. We like to see the maker's hand in the quilt. Those little precious places where personality overwhelms pre- determined design are the real art.

So let it go, feed your dragon, and play. It's how kids learn and how we adults remember all the good stuff we forgot as we grew up.

Sunny playing today

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Sunny

That is so well said, Sunny!

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Edna Pearl

What Polly and Sunny said...yeah. Play, it's the only way to go! amy in CNY

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amy in CNY

Today's (nov 10) comic strip was appropriate for this thread...

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:) Allison

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Allison

Sunny, Edna Pearl, Amy, Allison...

I had to sleep > Look, Doc, a lot of life is hard and uncomfortable.

Let's not go there (you know why), or get into what art is, or should be. It's obviously a very different and personal thing for each individual, like religion, ethics, or other matters that go straight to the soul.

I've let it go - or at least I'm trying to. So please... 'Nuff said.

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Dr. Zachary Smith

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