Post Crit Group Meeting

Last night I threw the two halves of the current quilt onto the floor in the center of the crit group, I had decided not to join them and instead bind them seperately because they are simply too different to be together. I was at one point thinking of making them two pieces, unrelated. Anyway, threw them out on Judy's floor last night to vast silence, then all 6 of them started talking at once. I explained my dilemna and gave several of what I *thought* would be solutions to see which one would hit the target.



1. Make a third section closer in feel to the first and add it to the bottom so it would be striped in thirds (of course this new section could be smaller or bigger than the other two.)

2. Bind them seperately and call 'em a dyptich.

3. Hang them sideways next to each other.

4. Bind them seperately and call 'em two new quilts.

5. Roll them up and let them ferment for a few months/years in a dark drawer to see what grows.













SO, one of my brilliant compadres suggested using the linen fabric from the second piece to make another piece and adding it to the top! This to me made perfect sense because I have more of that fabric, and just barely enough of the African stuff that I can keep some continuity. So I WILL have three pieces but I am kinda stuck on binding them seperately still. Maybe I will bind them seperately but hang them as one. I love my crit group- solid unadulterated REAL honest advice for 25+ years now.

I have had such piss poor luck with dyptichs and trypitchs- three times now one piece of a unit has sold from shows because I am not specific enough with the galleries apparently that they are a unit so they take 1/3 or 1/2 or 1/4 of the price and charge that for each piece, even though the pieces together are listed at one price. Geesh. Last night I gave away the second half of a dyptich to Sylvia because the first half is long gone. And I am tempted to go knock on the door of another woman I know who bought 1/3 of a painted series and just hand her the other two. The other one was four little collages that are now a tryptich in my bathroom.

So, I gotta lotta work to do today and one of the things in the order of business is to get some pictures up so it's more clear what I am talking about.