It was a fish! I almost drew in a fish body but my daughter said it looked like a giraffe, so I tried that instead.

Sorry about the shitty border :-/

not sure what you mean, your border looks fine to me... i see enough of a blue light in your border [and an obvious electrical cord] to have figured it out and continued the lights. if that's what Chris wanted to do he could have. just looks like he didn't want to to me...not that we have to continue "the other guys" ideas... it's a surreal quilt after all. ;o]

As soon as I checked in that tile, I knew I should have done a different background. That one is awful.

i think the background is fine too... people sometimes complain about certain textures or backgrounds being hard to blend, but i think that challenge is part of the fun of tiling ;o)

You're right, a challenge is what makes these fun. I just think the background I did was ugly. My focus was on the lights and I didn't pay as much attention to other details as I should have.

Actually, I saw that blue shape and had no idea what it was. I tried to continue the background pattern, but obviously gave up.

i believe that... it's easy to see it now that i know what what was on Christine's tile.
not 100% sure i woulda seen it if i'd checked that tile out. ;o]

Come on, that's obviously a Christmas light... j/k

Chris did mention that he wished I had put a light into the border, and it wasn't until after I had uploaded the tile that I realized I hadn't. This was the first tile checked out on the quilt, so it didn't have an existing border. I should have kept the checkerboard in front & reduced it's opacity rather than filling a layer with solid color and guessing at where the borders were.