Sweet Dreams - Planned Scrappy

     Scrappy - easy isn't it?  Not if you have planned scrappy, at least not for me.  Lissa Alexander has only 2 colors in her pattern, so she is able to make it faster because she can make a larger 15 inch block.  Easy peasy.  The other patterns I looked at were total scrappy, and relatively easy once you realize it is only 2 different blocks put together - a churn dash and 54 or fight.  BUT I wanted the 4 pointed "stars" to really stand out, emphasizing the circular look.  Therefore, they were each to be the same color family.  This means that I could make the churn dash blocks using the same color family but not the 54 or fight block.  They would each need to be laid out with each church dash and the  4 sides selected. 

       Do the pictures help it make more sense?  It was laid out one row at a time.  You can see the churn dash blocks, but I had to plan the colors carefully.  But aren't the colors lovely, cheerful and happy?  I love them!
    

     It took 3 days of crawling around on the floor, but in the end, I was very happy with how it turned out.
     Now to borders.  Very much I wanted the 4 point "stars" to be the focus and not be cut up.  So a white border was added to give the eye a place to stop.

     Now, to add another border or not?  The quilt is plenty big - maybe bigger than I intended.  After checking images of modern quilts and seeing they do not usually have borders, I am going with the more modern look of no border.  But I will have a binding in a torquoise color.
     NOW the terrible part!  HOW TO QUILT THIS BABY!