Little Bits.....: There was an empty spot

on the wall in the living room beside the tv. We have no plans on getting a larger tv so that spot has to be filled.
I dug out an old McKenna Ryan pattern and decided that I needed to get some border and background fabric.
Then............
I came home and decided that the background fabric was too white, too bright.....just too something so I dug through my fabrics and found this mottled batik. I traced everything and fused it and did not like the light purple thistle flower. It was fading away, so I dug through a box again and found the deep purple which is much better

You could at least see them for a distance.

Then I auditioned the fabrics I had purchased for the borders. They were not working against the toffee cream paint job on our walls~~which I love and have no plans on changing it.

I tried the brown inner border.....

I tried a navy inner border

and then I gave up! It was time to go back to the store and try again.
This time I did a better job........well, Diane and I did. These walls seem to do better with "odd" colours on them. Bright fabrics work really well too........navy, red, deep purple.

A couple of days at the Mega Quilter and it was done. I sewed the binding down on a Saturday evening while Karl watched tv. I used to like these shows but they are repeats and repeats of the same thing from years gone by. Unfortunately, there is little on tv anymore.