Had to buy some more of the confetti fabric as my estimation of yardage was off. I was debating between 1.5 and 2 yards and went with the 1.5... so I ended up about half a yard short. Trotted down to the next town to the south (where the shop is) after Tuesday group and had that moment where your heart stops because the bolt isn't quite where you found it the first time! But there was still about 3 yards on the bolt (bought a full yard, needed 20 inches so half wouldn't do and since I'm already back once I don't plan to come back again), so I'm good and will be cutting that today.
The squares turned out to be a variety of sizes -- the focus fabrics I chose are 6.5" squares, 6" finished. The confetti will be the frame and will finish at 2" for a 10" block. Since the sashing doesn't need to line up I'm using blocks that 6-6.5" and cutting them at 3" wide rectangles for consistency even if the length varies a bit here and there.
The original project used 5" charms so this will come out quite a bit larger and perhaps rather awkwardly sized, but it's part of my go forth and sew and fix the problems later concept.
I have already contacted someone who would like to have the remaining novelty fabrics
I also put together the first set of the metallic squares and found the finished blocks will be 7" which is sort of an odd size but I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm using pretty much anything that sparkles, has gold or silver or foil or whatever, I'm calling the project "Scrap Metal" which is a pretty good name coming from me, who is usually more of the Purple quilt variety. From the box and my own precuts I ended up with 32 blocks and still have plenty of small pieces and yardage to go. Still working on the sashing and layout so don't know my final count and how many more to make, but I'm planning on playing with EQ a bit now that I know the block size.
One of the future projects I'm doing with the metallics will be a very modern quilt using a couple of those Benartex Catitude blocks and gold embellished Asian themed fabrics, so at group I sorted those out of my 10" swapping square collection. The remainder got sorted into the current Scrap Metal project.
When I mention my swapping squares, keep in mind that most of them have been in my stash since right around Y2K! And I have been using them in projects all along, have consolidated my two boxes into one box. The two biggest collections were what I'm planning to work on in the coming year, Civil War and Metallic but there are still other themes waiting for inspiration.