This is ticking along now. Here's a layout using tulips in groups and including a couple more big ones.
I have started sewing a few bits together, starting in the middle and working my way out. It reminds me of why I don't often make so many small bits before I start joining them: I am poor at keeping track of where things have come from. In some ways it doesn't matter, since I can always just lay them out again, but after a while that stops seeming like fun. So, if I am to keep going until an end, I need to get some bigger chunks done, to compensate for the fact that I appear to be a disorganised person with a poor attention span.
I have one more little tulip and five or six more string blocks currently under construction, but I am more or less decided that I don't want to keep going with either. Instead, I am experimenting with dropping in squares of some of the floral fabrics that are in the pieced blocks. If I keep going like this there will be more squares and less piecing around the edges, though I might also consider a pieced border of some description.
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For this particular quilt these decisions are being driven by the prompts Ann provided, my interpretation of them and, increasingly, by the contents of my scraps box. If I want a border of any sort I may have to cut up a new shirt. I don't mind so much if that's where I end up, but I am going to have a good shot at only using what's in the box first.
Clarelou - the tulips are improvisationally pieced; I looked at a few traditional blocks, did my own little sketch and then just did them by eye. Nothing is measured as I sew.