Help this quilt not become another UFO, please. I bought these fabrics a few months ago, because I loved the jewel tones, and the black has all those colours in it. I finally found a pattern I thought would be perfect, but it's just not working for me
It was inspired by one I saw, but that pattern was appliqued, and I thought that was a silly way to deal with squares. So I got out my fabric and cut a bunch of blocks. But now, it's just not looking like I hoped it would, partly because the fabrics are much darker than I thought.
Ideas on where to take this would be great, so that I don't just pile up the blocks and stuff them in the back of the closet. I don't have a lot of the coloured fabrics left (just had fat quarters to begin with) but I can make more blocks - especially the smaller ones.
Photo is sideways (sigh) - this was the original plan, with the spaces all filled in with the black. I tried a bunch of different layouts - grouping like colours, growing from a corner, stripes - and don't like any of them.
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