Imagination Station

Okay, you’ll definitely have to use your imaginations on this, but I need some advice/opinions.  I started working on this quilt from Moda Bake Shop.

I’ve had some Hideaway for a while that I needed to use, so I decided to go ahead and use it on this.  In hindsight, maybe not the best decision I’ve made, but I really didn’t think much about it.  At this stage of the game, I’m not loving this quilt.  I love most of the fabrics in this line individually, but am not digging the all together result so far.  But, I’m going to press on.

And I need help with the layout.  Please keep in mind, I just laid these down as they were on the block stack.  I haven’t arranged them to disperse the colors, I’ll do that before I sew them together.

Option 1:  This is the layout as was called for in the original tutorial, the faux zig zag effect.  I laid this out first, didn’t love it, tried other things:

Option 2:  This is sort of a broken bento box effect.

Option 3:  Very similar to the option 2, only I arranged the center box to have the same middle.  It sort of makes an echoing broken bento effect…

Option 4:  Instead of on point, I could turn them straight and do an actual bento.  I didn’t lay it out like this, so I don’t know how it would look.

Option 5:  All of the above.  I would just mix all the blocks together, and sew them together however I picked them up.  No telling how that would turn out, it would be a surprise.  Perhaps a good surprise, perhaps tragic…

Option 6:  It looks horrible, scrap the whole thing, start on something new.

EDIT:   Here’s what my husband came up with when he got home from work.  Not too shabby.  I’m submitting it as option 7:

So pretty please let me know what you think…

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