Quilting along with Busy Hands Quilts block of the month: Gravity

I've heard it said that Gravity, by Jbird quilts, is a design that is all about color placement and careful planning.  I agree, but I'm going rogue and doing a completely unplanned, scrappy, batiks and tone on tone texture prints ,stash and scraps only take.

A few random thoughts on striking out on a different take like this:

• I use my design wall to try out color placement a lot more than I would if I were following the directions.
• I may not like the end result, but I figure that there's an equal chance that it will be pleasing in the end
• I reserve the right to change the finished assembly -- in other words, maybe not all my blocks will end up in the same project. I may just make a table topper with 6 diamonds. I'll wait to see what I think.
• I'm going to believe that quilting will pull it together if it feels a little too disjointed right now.
• One of the benefits of using a pattern or batik is that there is just a tiny bit of forgiveness for points that don't completely, perfectly, absolutely match as they should -- solids show every flaw.
• I have an amazing array or batiks, and it's almost ludicrous how most of them are from the blue/green/purple colorways.  I guess my tastes are consistent. 

Check out the quilt along I'm following.  Lots of great prizes, I'm told. Click on the image below to check it out.