Little Blue Folly

A folly, in an architectural sense, is an expensive, ornamental building that serves no practical purpose.  The little quiltlet I'm making is obviously neither a building nor expensive but it definitely serves no purpose other than using up scraps of fabric so for now I'm calling it Little Blue Folly.  As always, the colors in the accompanying photos are not truly accurate.

My original idea for this quilt was a background of blue/green/teal/mostly blue scraps of fabric, cobbled into small blocks, cut into squares, and sewn together with red circles appliqued where the squares intersect.  (At top of drawing, above.)  In my imagination it looked like red circles on a field of blue.

And then another idea popped up:  narrow black sashing with red where the squares intersect.  I'm going to have to play with this idea a bit to keep the red from overtaking the black.  Or maybe I'll go with circles.  Or maybe circles on top of the squares.  Or maybe... I'll just play for a while.

So my One Monthly Goal for May is to play, decide, and sew these squares and whatever else goes with them into a little top.  Maybe I'll get to layering, basting, maybe even quilting and a binding, but those aren't my goal.  Just the top sewn together is my goal for this month.

I'm linking this post to One Monthly Goal May Link-up at Elm Street Quilts.  Patty has been hosting this link-up for years (and years) and I'm so grateful she continues because it keeps me on track with at least one creative endeavor every month.  Thank you, Patty.  Click the link to see the beautiful quilts others are creating.

I'm also linking this post to
> Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts
> Peacock Party at Wendy's Quilts and More
> Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework
Thank you for hosting, Alycia, Wendy, and Cynthia.

Thanks for visiting!
--Nancy.