Quilt Discouragement

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Last week, I tackled the Lone Star Applique UFO. I sorted through my fabrics, looking for the perfect star fabrics.

I started with these three fabrics: dark green, light pink, and medium pink.

I sewed them together. Ugh. It didn’t look right. I actually set it aside for one small moment without having an emotional breakdown. I browsed through the stash and decided the green needed to go. The blue neeed to be added. I had these 3 fabrics to work with: dark blue, light pink, and medium pink.

At this moment in time, I was a very happy quilter. Without too much pain, I made these little star points. They grew up to be portions of a lonestar.

Beautiful! Right?

Then I decided to see how they look next to the middle portion. Disaster struck. I have several problems.

1. I want to added the star to quilt based on the line I drew on the photo. However the line doesn’t meet in the center of the star. I believe this is caused by star points that grew while being PRESSED. I really tried to be carefully while pressing. Apparently, I wasn’t careful enough.



2. I’m not in love with the way the lonestar look next the rest of the quilt. It doesn’t look like it belongs. Granted, I don’t have any background fabric. Perhaps the right background fabric could make it work if I could fix my over sized star.



3. The star is actully too large for the designated space. The star can stay if I make the background large. This kind or ruins the look I was going for. I wanted the layer look. A larger background will make the middle look like it is floating.

So what am I going to do? I need advise. I have quilt group on the third Saturday. I hope that can point me in the right direction.