Lainee

The design looked fine on paper, but when it was on the design wall it looked like total chaos.

I had the piggy material and needed to make a baby quilt for a boy. I was needing a way to make the pink more acceptable for a boy quilt and then it came to me that neapolitan ice cream was the favorite ice cream of the babies late grandfather.
The quilt is called "Neapolitan Piggies"

Before I had all the strips sewn and cut, I could see a mess happening. I did have exactly enough ice cream squares to go around the edge (and rotating clockwise across and down). Out came the crayons (I need to upgrade to Quilt Wizard) and copy paper in hopes of savaging this quilt.

Give it to me straight...does this look like crap to you? What would you do?

I may have to call it "Neapolitan Pinwheel Piggies".

bearisgray

What if you made a "piano key" arrangement of the strip blocks for the border?

Maybe put a narrow border between them and the body of the quilt?

Put a "solid" square in the outside corners of the border

Cute pig print.

feline fanatic

No this does not look like crap. But I find my eye being drawn too much to the chocolate boxes being formed by your neopolitan bars. Try rearranging your roman strip blocks so that doesn't happen and see what it looks like. This means you would lose your piggy pink boxes too but I think a simple flip of some of your blocks will help the quilt flow better.

quiltsRfun

I think there are possibilities for the design but maybe too much pink for a boy. Use a % off coupon to get Quilt Wizard. It made designing and doodling much easier for me.

Sadiemae

I love the colors. What do you think of changing the bottom three rows to mirror the top three rows? Just an idea.

mom-6

Some possible alternatives...
try switching the orientation of some of your neapolitan blocks so that all the vertical ones are facing the same way
try alternating the pinwheels with the neapolitan blocks in the border.
try using the dark brown instead of the pink in the pinwheels...ie have some darker brown and some lighter brown

Don't know how any of these will actually look...might not be any improvement at all...as you said, idea looked great on paper...these look good in my head!

Lainee

Ok, I'll cut down the ice cream blocks to about 3.5, ditch the pink pinwheels, the cornerstone looks ok....more suggestions

JJs

the pinwheels are fine, it was the cacophony of the fencerail blocks - but now that you've arranged them as piano keys it's MUCH better...
An applique pig on that big square in the middle would be really cute...

bearisgray

Maybe a narrow border (1 inch finished) between the piano keys and main part of the quilt? Dark brown?

Lainee

Where does one get the % off coupon for Quilt Wizard?