I left off here, wanting to shop for yellows and to add green.
I bought seven tints of yellow. Even if I don’t do the checkerboard on this piece, I have another yellow start that needs pieced borders. A project for the future. So I added dark green and laid the blocks out on the new fabric.
It helped that I trimmed the tails of bias. I’m not going to consider the checkerboard anymore as I am liking this. But one more try.
How about a cornerstone of the yellow print fabric? I think I like it.
One more thing. In the interest of variation, I’d moved the wider red from bottom to middle to top, but I don’t like it in the top position in the upper right block. Easy enough to fix; I had a piece of left over dark green, just the right size.
It was a tight fit, but it did two things. Even though I wanted variety, having the top of each quarter circle green adds a nice symmetry. And nods to difference by being a different shade of green. It also adds some curve where the wide red had ended up too straight.
You can barely tell that the width of the two greens is 1/8 inch different. In the future I don’t think I’ll work with such small differences. The 1/4-inch bias is easy to sew, but I had a bit of problem pressing. One side wanted to flatten instead of fold. I noticed that there was wiggle room, the bias maker being wider than double the finished width. Luckily I’d not cut but one piece. I cut the next one 3/8 inch instead of 1/2 inch. And it worked like a charm.
Now I’ll set this project aside till I’ve prewashed the new yellow fabrics and get back to the Welcome Blanket project (the one time I am willing to call a “quilt” a “blanket”).
What an ambitious project, I get intimidated looking at it! It is going to be fantastic!
The process on this has been so interesting. A break will probably give you a fresh take when you come back to it.
OK! I like it as a 4-patch with sashing and a cornerstone in the middle. And of course it helps to take a break in the middle of something challenging like this.