Off The Grid

Scrappy Fun Day Two was essentially consumed by getting these 1.5" squares off the 1" grid and spread out on the floor, so that I could better see the design without the fabric overlap and see if there were any holes.

Day Three will be color-block fine-tuning, and Day Four, sewing.  But that will all be next weekend, most likely.

I really shouldn't even consider direction this early on, but I do kinda like the green in the upper lefthand corner, as well as on the upper right.  It looks all wrong with the green in either of the lower corners.

I learned a few things these past few days:

One:  Batiks are fun to work with!  I can't tell the front from the back, so I use whichever has the pattern and color combo I need most.  But what I like best is that they're so inky-looking.  They feel almost like paper that's ink-saturated, almost like they're still wet.  Once I even looked down at my hand after setting down a square to see if my fingers were stained.

Two:  Mixed purples are fun!  All the colors were a pleasure to handle, but I had a little burst of delight every time I set down a purple square and saw how it interplayed with the others.

Three:  The toastiness of the brown center color-block caught me completely by surprise.  Once I wanted to redecorate my bathroom in "tea and toast."  It seems a good idea, once again.

Four:  The placement of each little square in these seemingly randomly-scattered quilts matters very much!

Five:  Before laying this all out, I had NO IDEA what I was going to do with that interesting, but kinda loud yellow-and-black checkerboard fabric, and now I love it.  I know that I will select fabrics differently in the future because of this.

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(Little Waffles)