Two Projects, Some Progress

These two, jarringly different projects are living side-by-side on my design wall today.

The scrappy-with-a-lot-of-purpole triangle squares are the result of lots of mindless meditative cutting and sewing and trimming of those 128 half-square triangles that I shared yesterday, followed by some playing/arranging them and sewing them together. They are 24 inches square and intended to become pillow shams to use along with the Wild Pansy quilt. As I wait for Spring, I could use a boost of color in my life and I think putting thes color-saturated pieces on my bed could do the trick.

I blogged on the Block Lotto yesterday about the influences in this little project: A lotto block from last year, the arrangement in one of the quilts made by one of the winners of those blocks, and a comment about some other scrappy lotto blocks received by one of the December winners.

You can see those influences in that article and read more about this project, here:

My Block Lotto–Influenced Project

Isn't it funny how some blocks, designs and comments in a blog post can stick with us?

Speaking of things that stick, I couldn't let go of the idea of using a scrappy checkerboard around the sun in my tea towel challenge quilt.

While sewing the triangles together, I kept thinking about my options. After the two big scrappy squares were finished, I reworked my checkerboard sky.

I didn't notice the symmetry of those black and white squares until looking at the photo.  It's bugging me enough that I'll have to change it, but overall, I like the lighter-brighter version of that design element.

I feel like I need to focus on that section, resolve my questions about it and finish it before I move on.

I'm still pretty happy with where it's going so far.  I think I may need another hen.  I don't know where the butterflies will ultimately land and the idea I have in my head for balancing the dark background behind the sunflowers is still untested.  In other words, it's still a challenge ... and I'm still having fun with it :-)



I'm joining Lee's WIP Wednesday Linky party on Freshly Pieced.