Scrappy Celebration with Friends, Finished Flimsy

 Last week at social sewing we combined all the blocks we have so far for Scrappy Celebration and put them up on PCQ's design wall. We discovered we had enough blocks for our top. 

We spent all morning moving the blocks around. Every time we made a change, something else had to change. Too many pinks together? Change. Same block design next to each other? Change. Two blocks that didn't play nicely together? Change. Too light at one end and dark at the other? Lots of changes. 

After all that, I think this is close to the final layout. 

Linda, our project leader, took the blocks and has already assembled them into a quilt top, a twin bed size for one of the charities PCW supports.

Photo credit Linda L.

There were three blocks left over. Color being relative, the fabrics in these blocks looked brighter and darker than everything else in our top, so they stood out. 

These blocks will become the seeds for our next group project. We've all enjoyed piecing blocks so much that we don't want to stop. So Linda and I pulled fabrics for our next version, more vibrant brights. In our first version above, we had mostly midtones but some of the prints had white in them, so some read as pastel. This time we're going for bold and beautiful! 

Lots more happy blocks to come!

Linking up with Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts