Intertia / Inspiration

It helps to see the work of others isn't quite up to perfection standards. It allows forward movement on your own work. I've been hard at work on the Storm at Sea quilt and am also in the middle of designing a quilt for Daughter #2. She wants an art quilt in blues and terra cotta.

Issue #1: What is "terra cotta"? She seems to see at as tile-roof-orange while others see it as an orange-y oche and others class it as warm tan. Well, she's the 'customer' so for her, it's earthy orange.

This allows a lot of pattern variation but...

Issue #2: Design it as blocks or on-point? Here are the two alternative designs in color-flow status -- just squint to see the color balance.

Issue #3: Size. These are set up to have a dark border and end up about 5'x8'. But she is thinking the space will only hold a 4'x8'. That's not a particularly attractive V : H ratio.

Did Gainsborough have these problems with his commissions?

This is more dynamic. It moves...