In Search Of Serendipity

My wonky stars were seeming a little claustrophobic after the last round of color.  The pink seemed too much.  I also had two more stars to work with.  So, as much as I hate to rip.......I had to back off some.  I added the other two stars to balance out the center design.  I didn't have enough pink to completely encase the larger design, and I didn't think I wanted to anyway.  So I decided to cut some more of the yellow into that bright pink border.

  I was feeling pretty good about it now, but the stars are so subtle. I wan't to do one last thing to help them stand out against the bright colors, so I quilted around them.  I think you can see it, they almost puff out in person.  Here's another picture of one of them.

Now all it needs is the binding.  I'm thinking no more pink.  Do I do yellow...or come back with a light blue or white with blue print?  What do you all think?

LRR2 step 3

I went round and round my head with this step.  Add color.

  I thought about a brighter blue, but then the whole piece would practically be shades of blue.  I knew I had to be braver than that. I tried black, and white, and a black and white print.  I even tried holding up a purple.

 Finally, I decided that I had already touched on color, just somewhat timidly.  I didn't have any more of that yellow, but I had this gold that has yellow flecks in it and I had more of the hot pink  So, I thought I'd pull those colors to the front, instead of being just hints of color.  I made the pink border wide, so I have room to play with it some more, depending on what the next step brings.

Janet's Round Two

This was the way the block stood at the end of round 1. I liked it well enough.

For round two, I started to make scrap fabric.  I really love to do that.  I use that techniques as leaders/enders sometimes.  Anyway, I thought I would use the pink, black and yellow, which came originally from the Block Lotto stray flower, as accent colors.  I thought for this round I would use the yellow.  So I started about 6 little scrap fabrics with small pieces of yellow.  Then I grabbed scraps in blues and blue-greens mostly. After a while, I sewed my 6 pieces together and cut a nice strip and experimented with adding the strip to the sides of this block.  What I found was the pink was too strong and the "medallion" look was not doing anything for me.  So......I cut the pink border in half, grabbed two more of my liberated stars and added the borders to three sides of the original block and this is what I came up with.

I think I like it.  This process is so interesting as it is always evolving and nothing is set in stone. I still have two more stars, some more made fabric, and scraps of pink and black, if I need them.  Can't wait to see what round 3 brings.

Janet's Round One

I'm so excited to start round one of the Liberated Round Robin.  I have these 5 stack and slash liberated stars that were an experiment of the technique.  They have been sitting around for quite some time with no idea what to do with them.  The violet some of you might recognize from Block Lotto.  This is one that I rejected because it didn't line up right.  So these are the orphans I am starting with.  I only used one of the stars for this start.  Maybe some of the others will find a use later.  We'll see.

I think I like it.