" After you pieced the patches and pinwheels did you throw them back into a bag and mix; then sew them together as you pulled from bag or purposely lay them out on design board first?I think I've still got to plan part of the process."
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The only planning part is just trying to keep the light and dark scraps evenly dispersed within the blocks. When I completed the blocks, I put them up on the design wall, if there was too much of one color in one area, I would swap it with another block. You can go crazy like that, you just have to make yourself let go ;-)