Little Brother Grows Up

 

I did some power sewing to complete enough blocks to cover the design wall and then I put them up.

So this is what I ended up with. This is only okay. It needs a lot of work and fine tuning.

The next morning I gave it a good look and pulled out some blocks where I thought the gray was too light or not "gray" enough.

These are the blocks I removed. I loved the prints across the top, the floral print, the letters and the cream print. The ones on the bottom row were simply too light. Sometimes you have to "kill your darlings;" get rid of the things you love if they don't work. These didn't, so they had to go.

This isn't it, but it's getting closer.

More blocks got removed and new blocks replaced them.

Eight versions later, this looks to be it, and what I will sew together.