SandyinZ4

Hello everyone, I am back from warm, sunny California and anticipating cold weather here in Idaho. Ready to start on Jan's round. So...Jan...here are my ideas. I have 4.5 inches to work with so here are my thoughts. Would you rather have a staggered brick pattern of 2 darks and a light or a nine patch all around? Either choice would have a very slender dark purple strip next to the part that is already done to break up where my round begins. Plus, I figured I could adjust the dark purple strip to whatever width I needed to get to my 4.5 (4.25 finished) I will attach my crude drawing and see if you can get an idea from it. Someday I am going to try and see what that quilt designer thing is that some gals here have. Looks really handy. On the staggered brick one, I would use some of your center fabric that is light with the floral design as the lighter brick and then the two darker fabrics for the other two shades. Also, since you wanted to see pics, here is one of my daughter Kym and I. She cooked an artichoke, which I had never eaten before. I have to say I wasn't impressed. Lots of work for not much of anything to eat. As soon as you give me input, I will start in on it. Or...if you would rather I do something different with HST's or something else-toss those ideas out. Anyone else care to jump in?