It Was Almost Done, So I Changed My Plan

I'm going to move some furniture. As it is now, the quilt is only eight blocks short of my original plan. 

I'm having fun making the blocks. I've still got bins and bins of scraps to pull from. So why not make it big enough to fit either the queen size bed in our room or the one in the trailer?

I can totally change my mind at any point between 100 blocks and 240 blocks, right?

The Most Challenging Part of the Project...

Look! There are almost twice as many blocks as there were the last time I showed you my progress...

Originally, my plan was to make this a 60" square lap quilt, but I'm having fun and I definitely have the scraps to make it bigger and having a queen or larger quilt for our bed would be a good thing.

I can quilt it on the long arm, so that's not a major obstacle. But even in the temporarily empty bedroom, I'm not going to have space to lay it out once it gets much bigger. I can rearrange the few pieces of furniture, but that'll only gain a little space and sooner or later Teenage Son is going to get around to moving his stuff.

Would it be a bad idea to piece the smaller blocks into nine-patches to make it easier to deal with? Or will take make me unhappy with the way the colors ultimately land?

Scrappy Sixteen-Patch Update

I need to dig around and find more fabrics that aren't blue. There's purple here, and maroon, and black and pink...but the blue prints are overshadowing absolutely everything else...at least in the picture. It looks more balanced in real life.

I've also got a brand new project for the new year.

I See Potential Here

I can see this working out once I add a lot more different prints and play around with the color placement. It's definitely going to be a utility quilt and not a work of art, but I can always use more utility quilts around here.

It's using up stash and the blocks are fun to piece!

Experimenting

My more recent scrap quilts have been more and more controlled. I play it safe by sticking to greens or blues or mixing obvious lights and darks.... or in an "anything goes" quilt like Cheddar Bow Ties,  I use all of that bright background to tie the fabrics together and make them play nicely.

It's been a long time since I threw caution to the wind and did something like Sparkling Gems. I had serious doubts when I started piecing the blocks for that one, but it all came together into a quilt that I still like.

We'll see what happens with this one. It'll take a lot more blocks before I have any idea what the finished quilt might look like.