
With all the projects I have going on right now, you may be wondering if Nicole is a big old Starter, but not a Finisher.
Over a year ago I started a project called Into the Wind, a Miss Rosie pattern featuring one million flying geese. Well, maybe not that many, but a lot. I ended up putting this project away because the color placement was driving me nuts. You all have heard me say that it makes me twitchy to have the same fabrics touching in a quilt, and no matter how I tried, I was having a lot of that happen in this quilt top.
Furthermore, I just could not wrap my head around the color placement of the blocks themselves. I just had to put it away. Every time I worked on it I had a head ache.

This is a photo of the blocks I had made up to the end of April 2016. As I completed each one, I was laying the blocks out straight, just to get them up on the design wall. In the pattern directions, there is a very complex (to me) diagonal layout. Every time I looked at that diagonal layout, my brain shut down. I think if you are making this quilt and are feeling confused and bogged down, you could absolutely go with a straight set as in my photo above and have a wonderful looking quilt. It looks ok, right?
The diagonal layout, as called for in the pattern, is definitely a mind bender, but I think it will be visually so interesting and complex when sewn together, that I will be glad I stuck with it. So I dragged out the UFO box and gave it another look.
Over the past weekend, I finished the full blocks, the side blocks and the corner blocks. You see, when you set this quilt diagonally, you actually have three different blocks that you are laying out, plus pieced setting triangles. I told you it was complex.
I resurrected this UFO, and spent many hours on Sunday concentrating on how to lay out the blocks for optimum color placement. I did a good amount of un-sewing to get the look I wanted.
I think this is going to be a winner when I get the top stitched together. I have four of the seven diagonal rows sewn and am happy with what I see. I am at a stopping point though, as I was short of some of the yellow fabrics I needed for the pieced setting triangles. The extra yellows have been ordered and when they arrive, I will make those setting triangles and get this bad boy finished!
Stay tuned, I think this one may be a surprise finish.
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