It's exciting to read about everyone's progress!
I made a course change yesterday. At first I thought I would use colorful neutrals with my garnet QSTs and gray neutrals with my block As. But as I sorted through my neutrals, I found myself setting aside colorful ones that went with my block A fabrics, and now I'm planning to use my colors with the A blocks and my grays with the garnet QSTs. I'm doing things in a not very efficient way, cutting all the fabrics for my As block by block, as well as the extra garnet squares. I will then cut the clue 4 QSTs. I'm holding off on clue 2, as we haven't seen how those will be used.
I was thinking about what Bonnie said in the intro about the aqua. She strongly urged us to use a tonal with no discernible pattern, and said that scale of print would be a problem. That suggests really small pieces to me.