I Couldn't Help Myself....

I haven't been doing all that much quilting as I am going through  a major purge of my stash of fabrics trying to get it down to a reasonable level.  Just making more quilts just wasn't reducing it enough!!  I came upon this piece of fabric which I really liked and knew I had to use.  It seems a natural for a stack and whack.  I cut 3 1/2 inch strips as the repeat was only 11 inches but there were 8 repeats so I am doing the kaleidoscope block.  There are 80 blocks altogether but they are fairly small.  I have fiddled around in EQ8 with several sets and think I am almost there.

 These are the first 13 blocks and think there is a lot of variety here despite the rather restrained (for me) palette!

This was a particularly ugly dyed mandala!  I decided to do what I do with these failures -- cut it up and see if I can improve upon it!!  (It is almost a version of stack and whack.)

This was one version.  No better!

This is a little better but I think I need to start with a better base mandala.