Dear Jane - Changed My Mind!

I have been a little ambivalent about using the bright colors in both of the Dear Jane quilts I am making. Sooooooo, I'm changing it up for one of them. The quilt using cream and charcoal for the backgrounds will now have shades of pink, fuschia and purples. Six of the blocks I have already done work in the new scheme, so only (!) 17 to redo. Ha!

It will be worth it. Here's the new scheme with some of the "old" blocks:

The striped fabric is my inspiration. I will use the brighter fabrics with the cream background and the more pastel fabrics with the grey background. The blocks will be arrange in concentric circles with the grey in the middle, then radiating out alternating background colors (and thus bright and pastel colors as well).

Grey-cream-grey-cream-grey-cream-grey / pastel-bright-pastel-bright-pastel-bright-pastel

I will keep the pieced border triangles in the grey/cream combinations. The non-pieced border triangles will likely be bright/medium shade or tone since the outermost blocks will be charcoal with pastel colors. Maybe I'll make them all in the medium range.

I went through my stash and I have a nice collection of fabrics to get me started.

This will make it more interesting for me to have two completely different color schemes going at the same time. 

And now I'm happy!

First Six Blocks

 Update:  Here's the first 6 blocks - I need more pastels, so I guess I just have to go shopping!