visualizing

Short-cut quilt in progress.

I’m building a top and bottom out of nine-patch squares and strips of fabric.

• The fabric with pronounced gray-green stripes is khadi cloth from India, a gift from Suzanne.
• The small patches with circular motifs of moon, sun and stars are purchased from Jude Hill’s threadcrumbs shop. Most of them are pinned temporarily, might move — to a border?
• The batiks and duppioni silk patches are from Fiddlehead Artisan’s Supply in Belfast, Maine.
• The rest is from my remnant stash, gathered variously from Portsmouth’s fabric store and other places.

Laid out one side. Composition so far:

• Nine patches. These define the eventual width of the strips.
• Each nine patch heads a longer strip.
• Two strips per row, with the starting nine patch alternating between head and foot.
• No khadi cloth strips next to each other.

I’m looking for the sweet spot between chaos and order, between slapdash efficiency and patience. So the pattern looks thought-through, rhythmic, and pleasing, but not finicky enough to drive me crazy.

Are there any more rules to find? Maybe the nine-patches should descend…how complicated should I make this?

I need to lay out the other side to see if there are any more revelations.