Here I am, still short of time but plugging away when I can.
I have spent a while trying to figure out how to extend the chunk I finished last time. Is this the middle of something? The bottom? The top? I have been moving and shuffling and quite a lot of just sitting and staring. It is still the case that I like some permutations of these blocks a lot and others not at all. This makes things simpler in some ways, but I also don't have enough fabric to make more than one or two extra now, so I need to be very sure of my decisions before I sew things together.
After a lot of general fiddling, I decided I would extend the central line of crosses and make another piece very similar to the first chunk.
That sounds easy, but there were many, many versions before I found one I was entirely happy with. In particular I was trying to watch the placement of the dark blue and dark red fabrics and, more generally, to keep an eye on the spread of light and dark across the whole thing.
This is what the two finished chunks look like together. I'm pretty happy with this, but its not there yet as it is a good-ish length (maybe 55-60") but skinny. Time to go wide.
