Travelling pic stitch blog hop - WAMP WAMP

Alas, this was down to the wire and I am not finished but I wanted to link up with what I had, so please forgive me for my lack of completion. I am submitting this to the Travelling pic stitch blog hop hosted by both Laura of Quokka Quilts and Katy of The Littlest Thistle.

Long story attempted to make short:

I love the Play crafts palette builder. I play with it all the time. I also wanted to try out some English paper piecing, fondly known as EPP. Laura brought up this great idea of taking a picture from your travels, making a color palette from it, pulling fabrics, then EPPing a project from all that inspiration. I got really excited and made some palettes, asked for suggestions from you guys and settled on this palette:

Napali Coast, Kauai HI

Then I decided to pull some fabrics:

And chose Katy's (from I'm a ginger monkey) Spring carnival pattern and went to work basting.

It became this monstrosity and I have to tell you I fell out of love with it. I had seen other people doing solids in this pattern and it looked great - mine was not pleasing me.

I had no clue what to do with it and it wasn't melding with any other prints so I just stuck it on some dark blue. I thought it looked so plain. I had no clue how to attach it. I was just really nonplussed at this point. So I decided to just hand quilt down in the solids with alternating thread colors. That theory went down the drain four squares in. It was taking me forever. Especially because it wasn't hand quilting. I tried and failed. It became a simple running stitch with some DMC floss. I apologize for the blues looking different in every picture - I am still learning photoshop and how to do colors as well as never get to take pictures during daylight hours.

So this is it. I don't think it resembles my palette at all. It isn't really what I hoped it would be. I did learn how to EPP so that was fun. Linking up over at Laura's with 37 minutes to spare. I will probably use the fabric from the hexies to add a binding and finish it off. Your thoughts?

I will leave you with some happy - the reason I have not had a lot of posts or crafting time lately is because I have been puppy sitting and baby sitting - neither lends itself to crafting time. Oh and working but that isn't fun. Here are some puppy smiles and Zeus photos:

no he did not have to
flash me to get those beads

pup smiles

deep doggy thoughts

cheers everyone!

kim