Good progress this week, I think. I am motivated by the news that I will have builders in the house by the end of next week, which at best will slow my piecing right down and more realistically will stop me completely for a while. I'm not complaining, since they were supposed to be here in September. My plan is to keep on hand quilting and maybe find a very simple project that I could piece without needing to lay it out on the floor and look at it. That, though is time dependent.
But enough of that. I have three columns of doors now and am perfectly happy with them.
I have thrown in a couple of variations - there are a few blocks that I think of as windows and also some tiny houses. I am not planning to make more of these now but have moved on to figuring out how they go together.
I know several things that will inform this bit of the process. The first is that I don't want total symmetry, so I have joined two of the strips together with a thin slice of colour. Most of it is an extremely dark blue that I haven't used anywhere else. It is an Oakshott cotton that I only have an 1/8th of but it is the most lovely, deepest, darkest shade, so I am going to get as much impact from it as I can squeeze.
The second thing I know is that my 3 columns are neither wide enough nor quite long enough for my liking so I will need to come up with something to rectify that. No ideas yet, but I do have one lovely shirt that I wanted to use but haven't cut up yet. I'm thinking that will be a good place to start.