design wall

New project on the wall. I have been thinking about my stack of blues since finishing The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd. A teenage girl is left to run the plantation in South Carolina 1739 while her father is fighting the Spanish. Indigo might be her cash crop to save the family farm. Based on the life of Eliza Lucas Pinkney.
Going through the stack of blues was like seeing old friends and acquaintances many of whom I had forgotten where we met. Repo 19th century blues, Moda blues, patriotic blues, indigo blues, Dutch wood block blues and a short stack of South African blues. So many choices and decisions and how many quilts. Divide and conquer!
Indigos and a stack of fat quarters that might be Japanese very dark navy almost black with very plain motifs that by themselves would be very dull. Mix them with some other Asian style prints.

 Simple design to show off the prints large squares alternating with 9 patch/puss in the corner blocks. It needed something brighter to catch the eye, red? I don't want a patriotic looking quilt, yellow/gold would be a better choice.   Lots of blocks to sew.  --Ann--