Nora,
Sometimes a quilter may "go wild" because of necessity too. I have a new grandson and he needed a gift to show he is welcome to our family. I am w-a-y away from the USA and of course cannot take advantage of the sources there, so I have to depend on what I have already collected or buy inferior cloth here.
As one Asian said, "What to do?" Now necessity is truly the mother of invention. I had leftover pieces of good cloth in myriad colors, but noting that really went together as a theme. I also had parts of a cloth book for Noah's Ark, but missing pages meant that could not be a nice book as originally intended.
Of the largest pieces of green I had, I cut equal sized squares to fit the cloth book pages and set it all together nine-patch style. That "story book" section will make the middle of a twin sized quilt. The balance will have to be invented as I go. For "sky" I am putting together 6 different blue prints to make clouds and rain in abundance--all nine-patch with bits of purples and pinks here and there. For the water underneath the Noah's Ark photos, I used the same nine-patch idea but put them together brick-style to show the "fountains of the deep" and the layers of sediment. Those water layers are being interspersed with layers of plant foliage (drowned of course), soil or dirt and so on.
The predominant colors will be green, blue, brown and wine. Fortunately the wines have a marbled effect and also "dead leaf" designs on them. That way I justified using them for depth of color and for the "decay" effect.
I use what I have available and the whole thing will gradually evolve. I know our baby grandson will like the quilt just because GramMER made it, but I pray there will be some aesthetic value to it too. LOL
Now have I gone completely mad or what? This time, necessity is the mother of invention. I am surely glad I have plenty of scraps to use.
The downside of all this is the fact that I have no quilting frame here, so all I can do is finish the top and wait.
GramMER :wink: