Halo: Process

Here's an initial progress/process report on Halo. 

After I wrote my recipe that I shared in a previous post, I got to thinking that all black halos would be too intense. So for my first block I used purple. 

I was delighted with how the block turned out; I liked the colors, the fussy cut, the arrangement. 

Feeling pretty good, I shared the block with my two fellow Halo-makers and one of the pointed out that making unified blocks would change the whole focus of the quilt, away from the halos and to the individual blocks.

That wasn't what I wanted. 

I decided to try making a block that would use the blacks for the halos and vary the fabrics in the other elements other than the solids surrounding the center fussy cut. 

I found that I liked this block more than the first one! Turns out I didn't want all text prints for the intervals, but rather assorted low volumes. But I still wasn't sure about the all-black halos.

I made two more blocks. This time I used assorted low volumes for the intervals and various darks for the halos. I left the solids surrounding the fussy cuts. 

I liked the finished first block a lot. But I found that using the same color for the pies drew my eye out to the pies.

In the second one I did the fussy cut with the solids, assorted low volumes, various darks, and very different for pies.

I like this one the best.

I really like how it looks with the two of them together.

These blocks are all hand pieced, and each one took about one and a half evenings of Netflix time to make. 

I'm really glad I made so many trial blocks, even though that first one will probably be unpicked and harvested as body parts for future blocks. It was good for me to do the process.