Last night I cut squares from another colorway of the circles on beige shown yesterday. This one is a little deeper toned gold. At the bottom is another brown print with flowers.
This photo has the same print at the bottom but a different one in the squares at the top. It also has 4 more sashing strips on the design wall.
I thought the dark brown yesterday looked depressing and darkened the quilt too much, just not the look I'm after. I liked the beige with gray and lavender circles the best and realized that most of my choices were too plain and it really needed to be a busier print to not just jump and be the first thing you saw. I want to thank you all for your comments and the reasons for your choices. It helps me to see things that I am missing by being too close to the project.
This photo has the same print at the bottom but a different one in the squares at the top. It also has 4 more sashing strips on the design wall.
I thought the dark brown yesterday looked depressing and darkened the quilt too much, just not the look I'm after. I liked the beige with gray and lavender circles the best and realized that most of my choices were too plain and it really needed to be a busier print to not just jump and be the first thing you saw. I want to thank you all for your comments and the reasons for your choices. It helps me to see things that I am missing by being too close to the project.
I'm adding the photo in the book to this post so you can see that the corner squares need to be integrated into the design, not jump out at you. Kaffe used little pinwheels and not the same fabrics in all of them either. I want my corner squares to blend in more with the sashing strips too. So now the question is, do any of the last 3 fit the bill? 2 of them are close, but I'm still not positive. I have 10 more sashing strips to make and I need to have the corner squares chosen by the time they are done. You know, the next quilt is calling me............