I didn't get much done sewing-wise yesterday, Sunday is our bowling date day we play a few games and have lunch (unwich/lettuce wraps at Jimmy John's). He has to live with me and my fabric all the time, and once a week I share his hobby
I did start another set of five Alternate blocks. My goal for today is to finish all of them, but I do have some errands and other things to attend to. Tomorrow is sewing group day and I will work on Alternates first, and then on the large sides of the Lupine Star blocks.
I think it is necessary for me to see the overall interplay of the design, or at least 4 full rows... and especially how the dark works which is why the Alternate blocks were my first choice to finish.
I am leaning towards using the brick walkway charcoal print for the inner border, square centers, binding and back. It is fun for me to have the same fabric on the back and top of a project. But that white and gray print really grows on me, I may do it as the narrow inner border, while keeping the center square gray.
But here's some of what I did do yesterday, playing with fabric.
Picture 1 shows what the Kaffe fabric would look like as the inner border. The inner squares are the white, so as designed other than my color shift. Bonnie's blue is my black and white, and from the first I just didn't think it would work so well for me. I think matching the inner border with the squares help the eyes dart around to find the various emerging patterns.
Picture 2 shows that white and gray fabric, both as the inner border and the square centers. It tend to disappear about as much as the whites, but close up I like how it brings together the white/gray units. But 1" is just so small, does it really make much of a difference?