Notwendy

I need to stop trying to be scrappy - it always ends up being taken apart and used in a more orderly fashion.

This started as a layer cake of Kaffe Fasset fabric. I paired each piece with a solid and made hst blocks and joined those into 42 approx. 9x18 (unfinished) flying geese blocks (I also made a few extra from yardage).

I then put them up on the design boards - Not. My. Cup. Of. Tea!.

Would a much smaller scale have saved this or were the fabrics too disparate to work?

My worry is if I made much smaller blocks I'd just end up with a huge pile of smaller geese when I inevitably decide the scrappy look doesn't work for me. Again. Rinse. Repeat. : )

I decided to give a controlled scrappy a try. I took everything down and formed them into Dutch puzzle blocks with sashing (2 in finished bright red cutting each 8 goose block in half and wider orange sashing between each of 4 Dutch puzzle blocks and as a border around the whole thing. That used 32 of approx. 50 geese. I might put some of the others on the back or use them for small projects.

I am still working on the fix - I'll post a finish to compare. : )

I hope the picture is oriented correctly. Feedback on scale of blocks or values, etc is very welcome.