{"id":33004,"date":"2016-07-06T05:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=33004"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:24:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:24:03","slug":"revisiting-projects-peacock-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/revisiting-projects-peacock-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Projects: Peacock Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said yesterday<\/a>, I finished the binding and back of the Food Quilt #3 and it is ready to go to the quilter. The top was already finished. I was trying to decide what project to work on next when I realized that I wanted to look at the blocks and projects I had been working. I started putting all of the projects up on the design wall and taking a look at them.<\/p>\n

Pulling out a bunch of projects and putting a zillion blocks up on the design wall is a lot of work. I am exaggerating. None of my projects have a zillion blocks, though the Peacock and the Octagon 9 Patch<\/a> do have a lot.<\/p>\n

\"Peacock<\/a>
Peacock – July 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I could spend all week going through the projects with you until I made a “big reveal” and told you what I would work on, but I think you should know immediately that the Peacock blocks excited me most when I put them up on the wall. I am not sure why. Perhaps my eye is liking the dark colors?<\/p>\n

I also realized that this is the first time I have seen these quilt blocks on the design wall.<\/p>\n

The above photo shows a pretty raw layout, but not terrible either. I am still in that gradation mode, so I put the darker blocks towards the bottom. I don’t have a lot of the small blocks, so they will make an asymmetrical border.<\/p>\n

I only have a couple of solid blocks, which I talked about<\/a> adding as tests. The lavender definitely doesn’t work in the current location. I kind of like the way the top of the quilt (without the small border blocks) is not straight. That begs the question of what I would put to make the edges straight. I am definitely not making an edge like that.<\/p>\n

My other immediate thought upon stepping back was that the gradation was nice, but that blocks needed a bit of space between them. I might be backing off that thought, but I will put some black behind and in between the blocks to see.<\/p>\n

This quilt requires more work, so I may quilt one of my projects while I look at it, try things and rearrange.<\/p>\n

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