Tangerine Dream

Well, that was a couple of weeks!

At least half of those days spent thanking God for NyQuil!

There should be a short window of time one is able to get a cold. 

Like from never to....never!

This is where I was before I got sick:

spending time looking at this and thinking, "There is way too much white here!"

So, pilfered through the stash and tried this on for a while.

Blech!

Maybe this is what made me sick in the first place?  Can you get sick from the "This is a dang ugly quilt top!" virus?

Totally did not like where this was going.

Off to the sewing table with the seam ripper (you can see I've made a start at the bottom, left of the picture).

I went to Quilt.com's Block of the Month looking for inspiration on other pieced borders and found

this happy little block called Fair and Square.

So, I tried one on for size!

Hey!  I like this!  It's a lot more true to my original vision of staying with four colors: yellow, green, orange and white without all the glaringly white...white.

I made a few more using scraps.  Some of them had been hoarded forever, but if I don't use them, they just sit in a bucket....doing nobody any good!

And here I am.  Literally.  See my warm, fuzzy socked toes?

Much better!

Sticking to my four colors.  I love them!

All this blah, winter gray weather is making me sad.

Which is why I'm so happy to be able to link up to

Quilt Story

i have to say

Freshly Pieced

and

crazy mom quilts

for my sunshine, inspiration, encouragement fix!

Come on over and play!