The other night after starting to arrange the patches for FOTY 2014, I was laying in bed and thinking about the arrangement and wondering what it would look like if I alternated light and dark for the whole thing instead of gradating the colors? This is where my mind goes when I am trying to go to sleep.
I didn’t have an equal amount of lights and darks in this batch, but I made an effort to do the light and dark arrangement just to see what it would look like. To get an idea.
This is what I think about as I fall asleep also. Then I drift off and dream about it.
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I’ve been thinking about this idea a lot (now you’ve got ME falling asleep thinking about YOUR quilts, haha!) and think maybe combining the two ideas would be interesting, gradation and dark/light alternates. Like a checkerboard, but have one set of squares be a warm colorway going from light at one corner to dark on the opposite corner, and the other set of squares be a cool colorway going from dark to light, opposing the warms. Kind of like my Kona quilt (https://www.flickr.com/photos/california_angie_o/6020349505/in/datetaken/), but with squares instead of strips. Hmmm……. I can’t wait to see what this year’s quilt brings!