Christmas Macnas Begins

 Most of the Macnas quilts have blocks that are more-or-less randomly arranged, but for the Christmas Macnas Quilt, I thought about arranging them in diagonal rows, like a candy cane. So I cut some blocks, made some pairs and put them up on the design wall. I thought this was pretty good, so I kept going.

It looked okay, but I figured I'd need more than four rows to tell me if I really liked it.

This showed I definitely needed more rows. but it also showed some things I didn't like.

For one thing, there was a particular fabric that I just like, so I had to take those down, and find other fabric to use in it's place.

For another, I had to rearrange the blocks so they were angled more like a real candy cane.

The overall look is getting closer to what I wanted, but some pairs didn't work well next to others, and I had to change several.

For example, in a close up view of the photo above, you can see four very busy fabrics next to each other (which I don't like), and one light fabric that while a Holiday gold fabric, just looks blah.

This is the kind of thing that often looks good on your worktable, but just really bad once you get it up on the wall.

Changes will have to be made. What else is new?