Thank you all!
QuiltE, I feel the same way about using color as background. And as I´m not a brown person I don´t see myself using tan colors all over quilts. Maybe I should try it in a small wallhanging.
Jeanie, thanks! When I´m back from France I will catch up with the PC blocks, I promise !
Quilting Nonnie, thank you! I´ve done about 15 or 16 blocks now, have them all in one file so I can see how they look. I missed a little cheer so I made one block with yellow