when leaves turn to boobs and back again

i promised you a funny story about the 'quarter' quilt didn't i? well, once i'd pieced all of my leaves, which took forever, i wasn't really sure where i was going with it, so i took it to mum's and laid it on the floor for advice...she took one look at it and very regretfully told me that one or two of them looked like boobs in silhouette...well, of course once i'd seen a boob in one of them, i saw boobs in all of them and realised all my hard work had gone to waste and sat down to cry. but then i decided there's no way i was going to be flummoxed by a load of boob blocks and that i HAD to come up with an alternative...i started slashing and re-piecing so my boobs looked more like leaves again (now there's a sentence i didn't think i'd ever write!)

sometimes i think i get so involved with something i forget to take a step back and take in the whole picture - it took fresh eyes to see something that i just didn't notice until it was pointed out to me. but actually i relish a challenge like this and once i'd got over my disappointment, the discovery of trying something else out and pushing my imagination was quite a buzz - and a bloody relief when it worked!

please excuse the quality of this photo, blogger seems to turn
a perfectly lovely image into something weird