totally failed at a mid-month check in, but at least now i'm here with the update for my fussy cut sampler quilt. this month was all about striped fabric and incorporating it in to the blocks as well. luckily, stripes also mean fabric that has a design organized in rows which allowed some of my themed prints to fit in quite nicely. am i guilty of purchasing more fabric than technically needed? absolutely. but i'm finding that i have the prints for the fussy cut, but not so much the solid/blender parts. when i first made the first block (the pluses) i had a totally different fabric in the bottom corner. it said stripes, so i went with the one striped fabric i had. i had a huge mental debate in my head, and ignored my gut feeling of the dinosaurs and went with the stripes...
i. hated. it.
that same week, while planning to prep the fabric for the rest of my blocks, i ripped it apart and resewed it to what it is now. lesson learned for the month: trust your gut instinct. here's the whole collection for chapter 2 (technically blocks 5-8, but i keep writing them as 2.1-2.4)
i also took a conscious effort to look in to getting some more yellow fabrics to blend in with that cray bold block from chapter one, and i'm really liking the balance between the blue, green & yellow with the grays and whites. i have some pink fabric i'm a little afraid to use, since i don't know if it will totally overthrow the color scheme or just add a little punch in here and there. if i use it (it's the same cat pink dots as the blue on block 4) i know there is some pink dinosaur fabric designed by dear stella that would fall in as well. do i want to add pink? even just a little pop here and there? let me know what you think!
and since i didn't think to to do this last month, here's chapter one's blocks all together, followed by chapter 2.
chapter 1
