Tarts Embellishing

Last week (or so), I posted about some embellishing that I wanted to do. La, one of my FB readers and a friend, said that she needed to see the whole piece not just the details. Here is my initial attempts at embellishing. Check out the previous post if you want to see details.

Tarts with Embellishing, #1
Tarts with Embellishing, #1
Chocolate Pot with Embellishing
Chocolate Pot with Embellishing

After looking at this audition for a few days, I decided that there was too much going on in the Chocolate pot area (upper left), so no embellishing. At the same time I noticed that the tea kettle (lower left) was looking a little lonely.

Tea Kettle, 3 stars
Tea Kettle, 3 stars

I have some star buttons that I bought to make The Child some fun garment when he was tiny. It never got made and I have been looking for something to do with the buttons. Perhaps embellishing the Tarts will be their ultimate home?

Tea Kettle, 5 stars
Tea Kettle, 5 stars

I kind of like the 5 stars. I am liking having some of the embellishments cross the block boundaries.

Grey Tea Pot, with circles
Grey Tea Pot, with circles

I have tried a couple of different things with the grey tea pot. One is red circles. They are okay, but I think I like the hearts better. Still, as Lorraine Torrence says “make visual decisions visually.”

Grey Tea Pot, with stars
Grey Tea Pot, with stars

Since I had the stars out anyway, I thought I would try them. I thought they might work since the yellow could spark up the purple. Yellow is also opposite purple on the color wheel. No dice. There is something about that purple that the yellow could not help. I like that purple, but I am finding it hard to work with…today.

Tarts Embellishing, #3
Tarts Embellishing, #3

I took a picture of the whole thing with the red circles. The circles don’t work for me.

Fluttering Hearts
Fluttering Hearts

I like the hearts best. TFQ pointed out that they would be very difficult to applique’. I think I am up for the challenge. It would be better if I found some heart buttons, but I need some that aren’t too cutesy. I’ll look around.

Tarts with Embellishing, #2
Tarts with Embellishing, #2

Here is a full view with the 5 stars and the hearts back on the grey curvy tea pot (upper right).

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

3 thoughts on “Tarts Embellishing”

  1. I love the silver light in the lower right too! Upper right…red whatever you use really looks nice against that background. Perhaps a more yellow for the lower left or orange? Try different colors and audition them if you don’t like the stars.

    This quilt always makes me smile. 😀

  2. Hi Jaye, I have been lurking, reading your blog for awhile. You ask some very interesting questions about the creative process and I am surprised you do not get more discussion over them. I have decided to sneak out from lurker mode and make a quick observation on this posting.

    I like the final embellishment arrangement better than the first. In the first, both embellished pots are at the top of the quilt. In the final version the embellishments are in diagonal corners and somehow all 4 pots appear to me to work together better.

    1. Hi Reva,
      First, thank you for reading and for commenting. I really appreciate your time!
      I think you have hit the nail on the head in the arrangement of the embellishments. The diagonal arrangement is much better. I am thinking that I need to try out some more of the embellishments that I have in my head that I have not shown. Some of them will just be quilting, but others will be embroidery.

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