One of my quilt groups recently resurrected the Ricky Tims convergence quilt and we all gave it a try.

On my first attempt, my fabric didn’t look very different after all that cutting-and-piecing! Oops, was that a “fail”? Nope, I added a lime strip and a border and that improved it, though it still was far, far from Ricky’s dramatic results.

Then came to mind Tara Faughnan’s remark that Sherry Lynn Wood is “definitely a ‘yes-and’ quilter” so I started to experiment with adding things. (The yes-and idea comes from improv theatre: whatever happens you must add onto it rather than backing up/starting over/throwing it out.) I kept adding, etc, until I came to this.

Then it was on to two more attempts at convergence.

My conclusion from this is (1)Ricky probably made hundreds of convergences that didn’t make the cut for his book, and (2)This technique may be a good way to create an interesting background for something else in future.

On to the next experiment!