Week 7 of Moda Blockheads 5 was designed by Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life, and I love it. This is a great block and I will definitely be making it again for other projects.
I am making a little change to my color palette for this project. I was originally using some brighter oranges in the blocks and I decided I just wasn't loving those tones. The bright orange seemed a bit jarring, which wasn't what I was going for. Then a kind lady commented on my Instagram post that she loved my "Halloween quilt" and that pretty much cinched it for me. Halloween is not what I want this quilt to be. I want to play up the darker rusts and butternut colors and take the bright orange out.
This is what I am talking about. I absolutely love this block, but the colors aren't working for me. If you compare it to the block in the top picture, you can see the difference. I plan to remake it, but it will take a bit of effort, as it is all paper pieced. Man, that one came out great too...
These are the fabrics I took out of the mix.
This is what I am left with. I also ordered some butternut shades from a Pam Buda collection called Butternut and Peppercorn that will work in well.
Do you ever do that? Jump headlong into a project and after making a few blocks, decide that your color mix needs changing up? A quilting instructor once told me that if a color you are using in your quilt seems jarring to your eye, you either need to take it out or add a lot more of it!