What would you do?

Here's where I wish I still had my old Art Quilt Group to bounce ideas onto.  

I am in need of an art consult ...  What would you do? [Sheila at Idaho Beauty-- I know you'll have some suggestions!]

I was going to sandwich this quilt top at Quilt Camp in a few weeks, but I'm feeling like it needs more work (surface design) before it goes under the needle ...

 This is the Curry and Red Spice Quilt Top. 

Can you picture it with the following mandala stencil on it?  It's supposed to be 23 inches wide.

The next question is : What medium?  Some kind of transparent paint? What color?

I've been toying with the idea of putting a crane on it in silhouette as I did here :

This was a small journal quilt, and I don't think a bigger-than-life crane will work very well on a bed-size quilt.  It would be monstrous.  And the paint I used here was too opaque, I think.   

Maybe Dyna-Flow or even those oil crayons we had to buy when they were hot ...  But what color?

Red Curry and Spice Quilt - Work in Progress

These are the Red Spice blocks I pieced up last fall at Quilt Camp.


This was a fat-quarter set from Hancocks of Paducah, called Red Spice Batiks. I love the way these turned out! Good enough to eat!

The pattern is Annie Unrein's Wicked Easy Quilt, which no longer seems to be available on Annie's website. I did find a copy of it at this Project Linus website. It's similar to Yellow Brick Road or Turning 20, or Sweet 16. It comes together fast, and it mixes up the different fat quarters to make it look unified but scrappy.

These will stay on the design wall until I decide on final placement of the blocks. Not a bad layout .. but I'll let it sit here a while to see if anything pops out as being out of place. Once I decide on placement, the next step is to square them up and stitch them together.

Sorry for the less than optimum camera angle. My sewing room is so small and packed with stuff that's it's difficult to get enough distance to these straight on.