How much thinking about does one quilt need?

My initial reaction to Brandon Mably's fabric collection was LOVE!  I bought and I brought home several yards.....as much as I thought practical that day and set about considering how I wanted to showcase my love.  I've been making more and more modern quilts and since traditional blocks can also be put into a modern look, that's the direction I chose.  The very traditional Churn Dash in Brandon's fabric looked really good against the Kona Aqua. 

I quickly became quite bored with my first layout on the design wall.  I was going to cut more of the Kona aqua to sash each block, but thankfully didn't do that! 

Putting the quilt blocks away for a few days to work on other projects helped to clear my mind so, when I pulled all the blocks out again, I decided on this on-point arrangement.  While I liked this, I felt that there just wasn't enough jazz-it-up that Brandon's fabric deserved.

So, in my usual determination, I just kept piling it on.  The more fabric, the better. Right! This quilt is beginning to come alive!  I think!  I haven't quite worked out the mechanics of how this is to be sewn together, but I'll think about that some more.  In the meantime ~

 

 

 

Happiness is Friday with a lot of thinking time behind me and a lot of sewing time ahead.