geese are calling

the calendar says it's officially fall in the northern hemisphere, the september equinox has been breached. sure, we're still in 100f+ temperatures in this desert we call home, but we'll take the name and spirit of the season even if it's still like summer on the weather report.

fall means geese and i've been hearing mine call as i work my way around wensleydale in the sewing room. i opened up the project box for "grellow garden geese" once again to see what's in there and what's going on with my geese. i found a few cut but unassembled, so i've worked those up between diamonds and rectangles in wensleydale fall colors.  

this morning i was looking over the blocks and feeling like this whole thing -an attempt to use stash and unloved fabrics rashly, unreasonable purchased - was the typical hot mess. some geese i really like; others are just plain flat and boring. what was i thinking pairing those fabrics?

in light of my enui, i was considering packing everything back up and hiding it away again. then d5 walked into the room and saw the blocks strewn around the floor and exclaimed, "oh, i love these colors!" huh. maybe it's not a completely unlovable project after all? as long as someone loves it, it's worth proceeding with. 

something needs to happen either way because my sewing space is more than normally crowded with the piles of fabrics pulled for wensleydale teetering all over the place and now the geese spread all over the place. decisions need to be made because this isn't a workable space as is.

i moved all the sets of blocks onto the piano room floor to layout in a possible setting for the quilt top, to see how they're looking together and how many i have/might yet need.

i have enough for a 56'' x 64'' quilt, minus four blocks. there are two sets of blocks, 12 each, that are slightly smaller than all the other blocks. what i did a few years ago to cause this discrepancy is a mystery. i decided to line up all the smaller blocks in the same row. it won't matter that it's less wide than the other rows. i'll add a small fabric strip to make up any difference in length. that will give the top a fun "make do" sort of vibe that i think will add some charm. i could have trimmed aaaallll the other blocks down to match the smaller ones, but why would i do that to myself?

i really don't know how i feel about all this now that it's laid out. that doesn't make me like it any better. but my girls are saying they like it even though "there's so much yellow!" yes there is. it just is what it is now and it needs to be done. i don't want to make it bigger by adding more colors/fabrics to change the look. so i think we're gonna go with what we've got and be done.