Yes, I have been working on the Tarts, but often the work I am doing seems like no progress rather than actually work.
![Drawing for tea kettle Drawing for tea kettle](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3834sm-267x300.jpg)
I started out with this drawing for the last block, presumably for the space in the lower left hand corner. I found a drawing as inspiration and once I had that crutch to get me started, I took it off in my own direction. I kept thinking about a tea kettle I once knew in Austria.
Once I had a drawing I liked, I had to pick fabric which turned out to be much harder than I thought. I think I have said before that there just aren’t enough colors for me. I thought a pinky-orange would look good, but couldn’t find he appropriate shade in my fabrics, so I tried others. As Lorraine Torrence says “make visual decisions visually.”
![Auditioning Fabric #1 Auditioning Fabric #1](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3838sm-300x175.jpg)
I started with a green as background even though I really thought the pinky-orange would be better.
![Auditioning Fabric #2 Auditioning Fabric #2](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3841sm-300x196.jpg)
The green is okay, but the kettle color isn’t quite right.
![Auditioning Fabric #3 Auditioning Fabric #3](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3833sm-300x198.jpg)
Moving on and trying other colors. Finally tried a pinky-orange I had. It wasn’t quite right with the reds near it.
![Auditioning Fabric #4 Auditioning Fabric #4](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3846sm-300x253.jpg)
Still not right, though I liked the purply-pink background better.
![Auditioning Fabric #5 Auditioning Fabric #5](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3847sm-300x223.jpg)
The orange is a little too brown!
![Auditioning Fabric #6 Auditioning Fabric #6](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3848sm-300x197.jpg)
I am no longer having fun.
![Auditioning Fabric #7 Auditioning Fabric #7](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3849sm-300x200.jpg)
Will this torment ever end?
![Auditioning Fabric #8 Auditioning Fabric #8](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3850sm-300x200.jpg)
A bit closer???
![The Tarts Come to Tea, 4/12/2009 The Tarts Come to Tea, 4/12/2009](https://artquiltmaker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pict3854sm-300x230.jpg)
Finally, I decided on the purply-pink hand-dye with space alien lime green. It was okay at the bottom of the quilt, though I kept thinking that the thermos-like block might be better at the bottom. I changes a lot, but I am trying it out.