Good Fortune The Reveal

First, let me say, I love the look of this quilt. I like six of the mystery quilts I have done, but this is well on it's way to being my favorite. And, best of all, I like my colors too! I knew I wanted to use one fabric for each color this year and I chose batiks to get the look of movement and variation of color without having to go scrappy. Don't get me wrong, I love scrappy and Bonnie's colors are always great, but I needed something different this year. Actually, I was not crazy about the green I chose, but it has worked out well.

The first thing I did when I saw the reveal was make one of each block. They looked like this...

Ok, I love the look of the blue one, but the green one was not exactly what I had in mind. Too much green, I wanted more of the lavender. So, remember these?

Well, I cut them up and made these......

I like this block so much better! Here they are side by side.  (Knew I'd find a place for those shorties, I even have a good start on Emerald City in String Frenzy.)

           

I was able to get a few of each block made so I can really see what it is going to look like. I think with the border, it is going to be just perfect. I am not changing the green triangles in the split half square triangle border, so I'm thinking I may try to add a skinny lavender border somewhere. Have to figure that out later.

I'm hoping to have the top finished by early next week. I still have to finish the binding on one side of On Ringo Lake and I don't want this one to take a year to finish. Check out Bonnie Hunter's blog to see more.