The Drunken Zen Garden

Part VI
Well with the less than perfect sand lines, I could only embrace the obvious and pass them off as the work of a drunk zen gardner!

It didn't take any time to finish this off last night.

Almost There

PART V
Today I started sewing down the top layer.

I sewed down the upper part of the quilt, excluding the gravel and smaller rock.  I kept losing confetti out the side of the quilt, so worked with a set of tweezers next to me.  Actually I have found the pair of very long, angled tweezers (I have no idea what their real use is) that I have, to have been very useful in fussy placing confetti around some elements of the quilt.

The Confetti Goes On, Comes Off And Goes On Again!

PART IV

Thanks Shirley for your helpful suggestions in the last post's comments section.  One of the big differences between quilting and painting is that painters, with their ability to mix paint, have an endless palette at their disposal.  With quilting, unless you are lucky enough to live near a great quilting shop that carries a good stock, you quilt with what you can get your hands on, or what you can dye, paint or disperse yourself.  When you mix that with my hope that once on the quilt, the colour will look better, you end up with that horrid green I used previously!

Anyway, I didn't do any work on the quilt yesterday, so this afternoon I was determined to at least get as far as putting the netting on.

A Frustrating Afternoon

PART III

The afternoon started out well enough.  I played around with the centre rocks until I found a combination that I liked.