mixing prints

This past week, I've continued to faff about with my bright 'trip around the world' blocks, reworking an earlier project that I didn't love. I was originally just going to make four blocks but ended up deciding to make nine instead. So, I've been playing with colour combos and slowly stitching a couple of blocks together. 

I'm mixing up all sorts of prints together, old & new, all in beautiful shades of pinks, green, orange, blue & lilac! 

I have a few ideas to help with the flow ... I'm aiming for two rounds to be the same colour, like for example, a light or softly muted blue combined with a bright blue. But of course, I break my own rules too and end up with something that's close, like maybe brown & peach or black & grey. 

I've also got two rounds of assorted pinks happening, a pink pathway if you like. And, there's a 2ndary pattern happening, all in a scrappy variety of mustardy golds & B&W stripe.

Oh, you may need to pop on your sunnies first ...

As you can probably see from my photos - I am splitting things up into (approx)16" asymmetrical blocks to assemble. But there was no easy way to join all those little squares up first, other than stitching one small square after another, and trying not to mess up the sequencing in the process!

Super happy working from my fabric stash in a way that is now beginning to feel cohesive and intentional

... one block at a time!