Squirrel

My buddy Julie posted this photo a couple of weeks ago. She said it was a great way to use up scraps.

I could see that she was speaking truthfully and from experience.

Julie's known to be a squirrel to me; that is, I'll be humming along on a particular project and have the next one germinating in my mind and then I'll look at Julie's blog and something she is doing sends me off in an entirely different direction.

Like now.

I wrote Julie to chastise her for once again getting me off track and she responded with some comments and suggestions, and mentioned that 2" finished squares would make more sense than 1" finished. I concurred.

I had a lot of scraps in the colors I fancy left over from a couple of recent projects. I got busy leader-entering as I worked on Hot Spot and these little guys came together Just Like That!

So I put them up on the wall. I had the idea that it would be nice to have the colors kind of move from one to another -- sort of like the principle of a color wash quilt but with hues rather than shades (oh, dear, I hope I have this terminology right!). And I thought that the way to do that would be to lay them out them all together without the white blocks and THEN go ahead and separate them with the white intervals (I hope you are following all of this).

So I did.

And here's where it stands at present.

It is doing exactly what I had in my mind when I began.

And I'm loving it. Just the way it is (cue Mister Rogers).

My plan had been for a 60" x 60" finish. That meant about 64 colored four-patches and about 64 white squares. I'm thinking now that inserting those white squares will take away from the blur effect I have in mind. 

Himself thinks I should scrap (see what I did there) the white squares plan completely and make 64 more colored blocks. That is daunting.

I've got a couple of other ideas.

One of the blogs I follow, Lynne's, has been very instructive. Lynne is an artist and as such she is prone to reconsidering, taking her time, evaluating, moving things around, discarding misfits, replanning, starting anew. I'm not like that. I'm a quilter. I start a project and generally finish it the way I initially planned. 

But.

I've got one chance with this project. I want to do it right. 

We'll see what happens.