starting again

Greetings,

When I'm feeling down, sometimes I take refuge in working with fabric.  That's what happened today.  I ended up getting started on assignment 3, picking the 5 fabrics and cutting up all those tiny little squares.  I hope it really will form those nice square blocks that the book talks about.

My dark, med dark, medium, med light, and
light fabrics, sorted into the 3 piles

I found it difficult to pick the 5 values.  Eventually I found set that seemed to do the job, but I still wonder if I have enough contrast.  I also tried to stay in the same color series because it can be hard to judge value of contrasting colors (we'll work on that again in December).  And I tried to minimize the pattern in the fabric so that the composition wouldn't get too busy, although I now see that one of my fabrics definitely breaks that rule.  Anyway, I'm committed to this set.

I cut a 16 x 16" piece of fabric to set the pieces on.  I'm going to use the heat 'n bond fusing on the 16 x 16" fabric so that after placing the individual squares on the big square, I can just iron them down.

I am excited about starting to tinker with these fabrics now, and look forward to a little more time in my quilt room.

Sarah