Silver & Pink, Working it Out

 

After I removed the dark gray, I felt I needed a lighter pink, so I cut a pink Charley Harper fabric with brown birds in it. Then I put them up on the design wall, swapping their positions with the pink blender. Now the gradation from light to dark pink was interrupted, but I liked it better.

Next I shifted the position of the lightest gray. Now instead of at one end of a light to dark run, I placed it in the middle of the other two darker grays. This was better.

BETTER, not great! Still a lot of work to do yet.

I had only a small amount of this gray batik. I did not have enough of it to use it the way I would have wanted to, so it had to go.

Similarly, this Ghastlies print, though I love it very much and has all the colors I want to use, had to go because if I cut it into small rectangles, the fabric wouldn't appear cohesive from block to block, so it had to go too.

Rummaging through my stash I found this, which kinda sorta worked.

I also added a very pale pink.

I was getting closer, but it wasn't quite there. I needed a dark pink. "Well, Lynne, " I thought to myself, "you know full well pink is nothing more than a light red violet, so if you need a dark pink, you're going to have to go into your violet pile and find something that will work."

To my violet pile I went.

I chose the fabric on the right to be the darkest "pink." The fabric on the left is the same value as the darker pink I had in the design before, but the print on this fabric made it more interesting.

So I made those changes and lo and behold, the design was getting better. 

During the day I had been texting Julie, and she did not like the Tula Pink Flamingo pink fabric. I was on the fence about it, as well, so back to the stash I went.

...by the way, you know the world is laughing at you when you realize the shoes you are wearing are pretty much the colors of the project you are working on....

I found a pink fabric with tulips and other flowers, pinks but also some yellows and greens. As soon as I put it up on the design wall I knew it was a keeper.

Yes, this is definitely headed where I want to go.

I filled in the areas around the edges and am happier with this by the minute.

These are the eight fabrics I have on the design wall now. Three of them are ones I started with.