Dancing ladies layout

Three things to be happy about:
(1) refrigerator magnets
(2) salmon cakes with lots of onions
(3) a jar full of crayons

I like what I did for lady #8 -

I wanted to have a second drummer, and to make it different from the first one I changed her short fitted skirt to a longer one with a slit in the front.

Showing a little leg, hah!

This is the first time I used this lady, #9. 

I didn't like the head wrap I used on another one earlier, but to save fiddling time with the hair I went ahead and used it again. 

It's not half bad!

So now comes the boring part:  I have to decide on a setting that won't overpower the quilt, so I arranged them at random on my design floor.

Now, I'm a very clever lady, but if I'd been a bit cleverer I'd have made all the blocks divisible by 2 to make the setting easier.  I think I can get away with it though, with a little fancy footwork!

Then I grabbed some random hunks and chunks and strips of African fabrics to see how they'll look as fillers.  These will be used along with the little wonky 2-1/2" square-in-a-square blocks that I mentioned in this post. 

My first thought was to make more, but I'll just use what's already pieced.

I found these leftover blocks from some long-forgotten project that'll probably fit in nicely, I must have more leftovers someplace.. 

Also, I can see some very classic black and white being thrown into the mix somewhere.



That's it for now, sew forth and sew on til later!