Mother's Favorite - September 2015 BOM

Here we go with the September block.

I like the nesting triangles. What I don't like is the background fabric. It is off-white, but it has a very faint watercolor pattern to it. The contrast color is a light orangey-brown. It's hard to see in the photo above, but it shows up more clearly on the fabric. On some of the pieces it is much more noticeable than on others.

To me, it looks like the fabric was scorched during ironing. The scale of the print is such that you can't see the contrast color on every piece. I also think that the scale is larger than the scale of the blue and pink fabrics. It is obvious that the blue and pink fabrics are watercolor batiks. It is not obvious with the background fabric.

I suspect it might look too busy if you used a "more obvious" watercolor print for your background. Maybe the answer is to use a solid, which is what it looks like anyway.

Lessons learned:

• Before photographing a block, remove stray threads. Otherwise you will have to choose between 1) repeating the process: taking the card out of the camera, putting it into the computer, importing the new photo, editing the photo, struggling with the photo app (the biggie), uploading it to the blog app, etc., or 2) letting people think you are lazy.

• When selecting fabric, ask yourself what it will look like when it has been cut into small pieces. Is the scale wrong? Will there be pieces without any pattern on them? Will it look stained, or appear to have been scorched?