I have always liked the phrase, “truing up”. It implies getting things straight. Coming into alignment. Making the edges workable. And because I mostly eyeball the lines in the early stages of my quilts, truing up also indicates progress toward finishing.
And then there’s screwing up. As in orienting one large section of the bottom of the quilt up-side-down. Oh well. Good thing I am developing a new relationship with my seam ripper.
intended, upper right
upper right, upsidedown
Hey! I like the upside-down version and, except for the cherries, I think it works that way too.
I think it looks great either way!
I’ll often ‘go with’ a mistake like this, but in this case both the cherries and the trucks on the black background bug me too much to leave as is.
oh who cares? i erased screwing up from my dictionary a long time ago. useless really.
well, although a topsy-turvy world goes EXACTLY with what this quilt is about, I want the trucks to be oriented wheels-to-the ground and the cherries oriented with gravity… I suppose the thing to wonder is, why mention it?
This is spectacular any way you look at it!
thanks a lot, Seth. (got my copy of “true colors” in the mail this week — will post a comment over at your blog tomorrow — and of course, I love it!)