Cancer Quilt - Part 2

Even after deciding on the color scheme, picking the fabrics for a quilt usually takes me quite some time.  I start by wandering around all the fabrics to get an idea of what's available.  Then I'll start pulling out all of the bolts in my color scheme that catch my eye - I always pull out more fabrics than I'll ultimately need so that I can play around with the combinations.  Once I've got all the bolts in a pile, it's time for a tried and true technique:  I take a step back, tilt my head to the side, and squint.  I'll rearrange the order of the bolts, switching different fabrics in and out until I'm satisfied with what I've got (with lots of stepping back and squinting throughout).

This time things went a lot more quickly than I had expected.  Teal, pink, and blue is not a color combination I would have come up with on my own, so I thought I might struggle trying to find a cohesive group of fabrics.  Instead, all of the right fabrics seemed to just jump off of the shelves, and after a few rounds of shuffling bolts, I was done.

A closer view of the pinks ...

... and the teals/blues

The frustrating thing this past week was that even though I had a free day off of work (due to the power outage), I couldn't work on the quilt (due to the power outage - everything needed to be ironed!).  But due to the storm, Trick-or-Treating got postponed until Saturday evening, and I discovered that waiting for kids to show up at the door was a great time to be working on the quilt.  After that work session plus a little bit more this morning, all of my squares are cut and are ready to be sewn into 9 patches.