I think too much

This past February "my quilt store" was having a birthday sale. It was a good sale. Everything was at least 20% off. I found a Halloween/Fall kit that included the backing for 50%! (Or so I thought. Scowl.) Well they rang it up as all separate pieces, or something weird like that and it ended up being a lot more that I thought it would. At that point I had already fallen in love and wasn't about to give it up so I paid and in my closet it has sat.

Knowing that I get bored of projects easily I thought that maybe I better start it now if I wanted to have it done in time to display this year. (It would give me time to quit and start again LOL!) The store always includes a seriously crappy picture of what the finished quilt should look like. This is basically the same pattern just so you know ;)

In their terrible picture I can't make heads or tails of what prints are paired together. It is so fuzzy and distant. It is a real joke. (Do you think if I volunteered to take pictures for them and only asked for an employee discount, not a salary, they would go for it? )

I went ahead and just did my own thing. The problem? I can't throw caution to the wind. I can't mix without matching. There had to be something that coordinated the two fabrics, even if it was only in my mind.

After I was done I looked at their picture again. Even though I couldn't tell what was what I could tell that colors had been paired that I never would have imagined pairing. However theirs looks cute, crazy and scrappy. Mine looks planned and contrived. I don't know how to avoid this. Half of my wants to leave it because it will work in my head. The other half wants to just have Emma and Andrew pair them up. I will sit back and say come what may and just go with it. (Let's be honest. That could never happen.)

This has been in my living room floor for days now.

I walk by, look at it and then don't know what to do. I even tried asking Paul. That was helpful. NOT! I need to stop thinking so much. I see these crazy combinations and think "Oh, I love that" but then realize that I never could have put them together. Ahhh! I wish that part of my brain had a shutoff switch.