I kept changing my mind on Joan's fabric too. I had thought of a different pattern or two but nothing really worked w/ the number of full mandala's I had in the print and size and layout. I thought of the one I did end up doing but couldn't make it work w/ all the full sized octagons, and didn't want to lose the big ones I did have by cutting them all to the smaller octagons, so I ended up half big and half small and it worked out mostly. I was worried it might be to white since she specifically mentioned wanting to make a "black" quilt, but I had nothing left to "darken" it with. I was pleased w/ how it turned out, but have to say my favorite that I made this time so far w/ that pattern is the fairy block, that one is still in danger of "falling out of the squishy" lol