DWM - Corners

Do you back yourself into corners?

Exploding Pineapple

For someone who generally likes to plan, I find myself backed into corners of my own making more often than I want to admit.

Y'all will probably think I'm silly; but remember, I have that obsessive/compulsive side of my brain that wants demands order.

Here's the current corner (aside from the fact that my design wall is in a dark corner ...)

I started this version of Exploding Pineapple as class samples/step-outs, but liked the grey/yellow combo so much I decided to make a whole quilt.

While I intended to be random in my fabric choices for each block, my plan was to have half finish in grey and half finish in yellow so that I could alternate placement.  But some greys are light and some are dark, just as some yellows are light and some dark.

Greys from light to dark and somewhere in between

I am still working on the yellow half so I will contemplate how the lights and darks should be distributed as I work.  My initial thought is the darks should anchor the outside and the lightest go in the middle ...

In the meantime, I need to make some decisions about the sashing -- yellow or grey stripe down the center -- or something else altogether ...

Potential sashing

and the borders ...

Potential borders

The dark yellow on the left is not only ugly, but just the wrong shade of yellow, even though it's from the same Andover collection (Lilliana) as the black on the right and the gray at the bottom.  I would favor the black border print except that it is 8 inches wide and I think would dominate the quilt.  The gray at the bottom would need an inner border for separation (maybe a bit of the ugly yellow ...).

Decisions, decisions ....  I will post a tutorial tomorrow and perhaps will be able to tell you which direction I will take.  Stay tuned.

And hop over to Patchwork Times to see if anyone else gets into corners like I do.