One Block Wonder Color Flow

In class this week, we worked on the color flow of our blocks.  We sorted them  into color families and tried to arrange them on the design wall so that each block somehow related to the blocks next to it.  That is hard to do when you have six- sided blocks:  each block needs to somehow relate to the six blocks next to it.  The teacher asked us to take pictures so that we could tell if there were any blocks that didn't fit into the quilt. 

Arranging  blocks is not something I do much of.  I make mostly scrap quilts and don't usually worry too much about color flow.  I know there are quilters who put blocks up on their design walls and rearrange them until they get the perfect quilt.  That's not me.  I get them sewed together, see where I could have made better choices and move on.

I don't have any wall space for a design wall, so I usually use my floor.  Thursday night, though, I decided to use my son's bed.  He is off to college, and will never know.  I put down batting first so that when I get the perfect arrangement, I can roll up the whole thing and move it into my bedroom/sewing room.

 

 

I am mostly satisfied with the layout.  I like the top green corner fading into pink/purple and down into the green corner.  I am less satisfied with the right side of the quilt, but I think that may be as good as it gets.  I've spent several hours moving blocks around.  Enough!  Time to get the cube blocks made.