I had chosen five colors for the spires, and I made five of each color for 25 arcs. Then I spent some time auditioning center circles and backgrounds, finally deciding on the very expert advice of all my Facebook friends to do a navy outer corner.
I vacillated between black and navy. I liked the black fabric and in principal it should have worked. However, when I put the pictures up on FB, the blue 'sparkled' where the black did not.
So there!
I also decided to use red for the inner circle. I love red. And this fabric is pretty, a pretty print in a wonderful vibrant red! What's not to love?
I made my two pattern pieces and cut them all out. The next step would be to choose a layout. I needed to decide what configuration this quilt top would take, which would determine how many blocks I would ultimately need.
Never being one for making things JUST like the pattern says, I looked at everything in the whole book, and can't decide for the life of me, although I do like a couple of the wonkier layouts. I decided against being to symmetrical by starting in the center with a full circle, but the one I really like has the blocks in groups of three and four. Dang!
Back to the sewing machine to make a few more blocks of each color!
Is it any wonder that I end up with a 'parts department'??
Sew on...
