It's time for the
Kaleidoscope of Butterflies link up this month. Last month I was on the lookout for some butterflies, and I captured this one "in the wild."
You can see by the lint that this fabric spent a long time in my scrap bin! This stack of triangles is for foundation piecing in
Wild & Goosey. The scrap bin is now almost empty! But the stack of triangles keeps growing as I add the leftovers from other projects.
Also this week, Bonnie Hunter revealed the final layout for her 2016 mystery quilt, En Provence. You can see it
here, for the next few weeks. I love it! I especially like the circular effect with the purple in the big blocks. And I have to say, I was genuinely mystified. I thought I knew where it was going, and I was wrong!
But anyway, let me remind you of my flamingo-inspired colourway:
Bonnie's quilt has sixteen of those circle blocks, so for my simplified version I thought nine would work well. I am using pink where Bonnie used yellow, and I noticed that her yellow fabrics are quite light. I have that light pink flamingo blender, and I thought that would be perfect!
Argh, no, it is horrible! The light aqua adds nothing, and there are just too many flamingos. Does it look better with the green squares added? It does not. So many pretty fabrics, so terrible all together. Right from the start I had a feeling that it would be risky to change the values in the quilt. But, I ignored the doubts and forged ahead! I should know by now to listen to those niggling doubts.
So now I have quite a few pink flamingos to add to the stack of triangles for Wild & Goosey! What a useful project.
Looking closely at Bonnie's finished quilt, some of her greens (where I used aqua) are almost black. And they are extremely scrappy with a wide range of values, which gives a lot of interest. I needed something very grounding too. I considered dark pinks or reds, but then I thought, why not black? I have some bold black prints in my stash that could give that same range of interest that Bonnie has:
And look, there's that same butterfly fabric again! I haven't cut them yet, but I'm keen to see how they will work.
I also like that the larger pieces in this project will show off some of my larger scale, modern fabrics. Here are pinks I settled on:
They looked good in the sunlight there, didn't they?
By Monday I hope to have at least a block or two to share, and by the last link up in February I am determined to have the flimsy done. So that is my
One Monthly Goal for January as well -- En Provence flimsy by the end of the month. Only nine blocks! Plus, pieced sashing and pieced border...
Right now I am still catching up on the clues I skipped. Here are my green hsts from clue #5:
And today I was cutting these fabrics for more Tri-Recs units from clue #4:
After considerable thought, I've also decided to go back and piece some of the all-white four patch units from clue #1. Those are next!