I'm still waiting for my background fabric too - but it should show up today as it's in the town 12 miles away this AM.
You can always start late if your fabric shows up in the middle of January (or even much later)- there is nothing special about the order of the blocks so if you start on #4 (or any of them) its not going to matter at all - then you can go back and do the earlier ones as you have time. You could always to a test block with other fabric in the mean time. That is what I've been doing, since I'm so excited I couldn't wait to start LOL!!
I wanted to see what it would look like using a much narrower selection of colors - and since I'm doing machine applique, that part isn't going to take long either. I got kind of carried away working on it this weekend, but putting the colors together is the funnest part! I'm still doing my "bold/gold" one for the "real" one.
