Thank you so much, zozee! Well, sometimes ya just gotta figure out a way to laugh or you’ll cry your eyes out! Believe me, most of the time this quilt was no laughing matter... when i started making the blocks, at first i was like “what were you thinking”??? But turns out the cutting and sewing was a piece of cake compared to getting it laid out.
I like your idea to start out with the blue, gold, etc and then just build out from there. Maybe i can jump start myself by making a few of the animal blocks first and then reverse-engineer back to the border to see where they might fit? I work backwards a lot when i’m making a quilt, so i must just like doing everything the hard way!
As for everything else you said... you just made me hungry!!!