Ack - Realistic is So Tedious

What do you call the (what seems like) thousands of color changes - confetti? It's driving me nuts. I'm doing a realistic bulldog for a charity quilt, and it's sooooo tedious. You should see the back of the piece - and no, I'm not even going to show it. But it's really starting to look like a bulldog, and I think I'll finish it sometime on Monday. Perhaps I'll take a picture tomorrow.