More Progress and Some Decisions...

Still making progress on this quilt.  This step shows more "petals" being added to each of the large outside pieces.  You can see that I haven't sewn the stars together yet.

The large flowers are all all completed although not sewn together.  So they join the stars which are also not sewn together.  I will not be opening any windows any time soon or putting on the fan!!

Here I have added the dark green petals on the outside.  I now have three different dark greens in the quilt!!!  I only  had a quarter yard of the last piece and literally just enough to make these blocks!  Looks like I didn't run out of the pale blue either which was a relief as I was cutting it close on this one as well!  

I did want to repeat the fuchsia in the middle somewhere around the outside as it needs to be repeated and I have very little of it.  So I have decided to replace some of the leaf blocks (like those ones surrounding the center block) with star blocks using the fuchsia for the star points.  I will use these in the four outside corners.  I will repeat the yellow with a thin border strip (maybe 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch).  There are setting triangles outside the leaf blocks that surround all this.  I have decided to repeat the orange there as there is a lot of green and purple and I do like a green, purple and orange palette a lot -- my favorite colors together.  I reserve the right to change my mind on this if it is too much.  The other alternative is a darker sky blue.  We shall see!