Or, maybe it’s going to be more than that. Now that I’ve put the four together and looked at them… of course there are things I want to change.

Now here’s the boring part. Don’t bother to read. It really will be boring. Just look at the picture and be awed by my talent. Or leave a comment with color scheme preferences/suggestions. (Yeah, I know that’s not gonna happen. But I can try.)

Laying them out on my bed was a good thing to do, since they’re going to make up my bedspread. Seeing them in the room helped me decide what I liked best, and I was a little surprised. The 2 on the left are winners. They’re not the ones I expected to prefer. (Those two also look better in black and white than the others. I checked. Because whether a thing looks better in B/W tells you something. I’m pretty sure.)

I didn’t know whether I was going to like the yellow on the outside of the corner motif (lower right.) Now I know. I don’t like it one bit. What was I thinking, blocking it without looking it over and deciding on that first? It wouldn’t have been so hard to undo just that part. But there’s little doubt I will pull that out, save the circle, and redo the corners and border.

Also, I’m  not thrilled about the light yellow border around the squares with the lighter color schemes. I do think I’d like it a lot around the other squares. (I’m not thrilled with the coral around those ones, either.) I crochets samples of a bunch of different border colors. The one I like best on its’ own was the mint green. But that’s also the color of the very outside of all the corner motifs. (Except, of course, the yellow one that I’m going to redo.) I think I rejected the mint for a reason.

I will have all the color decisions made really soon. Really I will. And the stitch decisions are already set in stone. I’ve done too much work to change that. (Until I do the next one… maybe in another 10 years.) So the rest of it will go much faster. It might even get done in less than 2 years.

Meanwhile, the sign’s coming along. I mean, it looks pretty good sitting on my chair. But I think it needs just one more thing… what could that be… I know there’s something…

Hmmm… A signpost, maybe? (And a trim off the right hand side. Yes, I see that.) But then I might just have to work up the courage to go out and sign-carry.