Dithering, dithering

I KNOW that I have been far too indecisive on this Quiltville mystery color selection thing.  You don't have to say it.  But I still feel in some way that I'm not quite there.  Oh, I love the colors I had settled on :

But there is a lot of gold there and it's very strong and while I like it, I used so much of it in the last mystery, Orca Bay.  So I was wondering if the blue and green would be enough to keep all the attention away from the gold.

So, this morning I started playing in my stash.  First I substituted the black on white prints for thee creams, like Bonnie is using:

And, I kind of like it.  It gives the group a little more movement.  So even though I've used a truckload of shirtings recently I might go with that instead of the cream tone on tones.

Then, since I just ordered some fabrics from a cheap web source and threw in some purples because I had absolutely none of them, I made this grouping in Bonnie's selected colors, and it's pretty nice!

The gray might be little light, but it's what I have.  I have another much darker almost charcoal one too but that's probably too dark.

Then, my heart still yearning for a brown and pink quilt, I made a grouping around a striped piece that I found that would be the binding someday for that quilt.  It has a bit of purple in the stripes, so I used this group and put in gray for the constant, since that's in the stripes too.  I could use either the light or dark gray, I guess.  I added the creams for the background.

And actually, that looks a lot more like me!  You can see a bit of the stripe in the bottom of the picture;  here's a better one:

I could even fudge a bit and use a lighter blue for the constant instead of the gray with this stripe as an inspiration.

I'm going to have to put some real thought into this!  To say I'm confused is an understatement.  Don't get me wrong, I love my Orca Bay, I just don't want to make another screamin' gold quilt.

I just had a crazy idea. . .

.   .   .inspired by this fabric:

I was cruising through Thousands of Bolts online, looking at striped fabric because I'm thinking ahead to binding for the new Easy Street mystery quilt and I love striped bindings, when I saw this Kaufman fabric.  I'm not a "black" person.  Don't really wear black or decorate with it or quilt with it.  But when I saw this swatch of green/purple/white on black stripes I got this brain flash of doing the Easy Street quilt with green/gold/violet blue, white TOT for the constant and Kona Black solid for the background.

Am I crazy?

Well, if not Easy Street, I'm going to do something with those colors.  I'm buying a yard for binding.

Then I saw this:

and started seeing pink/purple/gray, black constant and white TOT background.

So may colorways, so little time.......

I think I just like stripes!

Do you see it?

Good grief, I messed up again.  Two blocks turned the wrong way.  Time to get out the seam ripper.  And I was so smug - finally finished.  I never saw the error until I uploaded the photo, and I wasn't even in that much of a hurry in my sewing.  I have no idea how I did this,

I'm so ashamed. . .gulp.

You know how I said I wasn't going to buy any new fabric for the new Bonnie Hunter mystery?  Well, I caved.  Folded.  Crumbled like a stale cookie.  But I had a coupon.   .   .

Photos later.

Addendum:

This is the look I was wanting all along.  Now they've gone into that Rubbermaid tote and they're not coming out until the first clue.  I have made myself crazy over this.

Finally, a decision!

This is how it's going to be.  The designers were of course, right - it does't need any more borders.  I guess I have a propensity to take everything one step too far.

 I'll start working on assembling the blocks after the electrician leaves - replacing ballasts in the fluorescent lights in both bathrooms.  It'll be nice to get rid of the flick-flick-hum-hum that they've started.  And then hopefully there will be no more plumbing problems and electrical fixes and flooring issues and wall repairs to be done - at least for a little while - until the garage interior is repainted after New Year's.

Addendum (11/2/12):
No sewing today but a nice trip to Hancock's where I purchased some additional fabric for Bonnie Hunter's mystery, which makes me finally, finally satisfied with the color selection and ready for the first step.

When the electrician removed the panel on the fluorescent light to get to the ballast he found that the case of the ballast was so hot that he couldn't touch it and had to put on a heavy glove to be able to handle it.  Not good  And the insulation on some of the wires was cooked and flaking off, leaving bare wire right next to the ballast.  Even worse.  So glad I got that done.  The ballasts are inside the light structure so no idea that they were in that bad a state - the lights just flickered and were slow to start.  What a relief.

I think I'm just about caught up on the house issues for a while.  That's enough expense and misery for now, until after Christmas when I can get the painters back to paint the inside of the garage.  It won't take long and I will have the worst part of that job - pulling everything down from the shelves and hooks and moving all that stuff out of the way.

And it was a good guess. . .

.   .   .but not completely right.  I was wondering what would be done with "Red No. 3" fabric called for in the initial yardage.  I figured binding, or a solid border.  But instead it was used for setting triangles without a border, which looks a little unfinished to me.  I laid fabric out around the blocks this morning and took some pictures so I can imagine how it would work.

Just print setting triangles:

 Or print setting triangles and a print border, using a few of the leftover nine patches for a corner detail, which would be optional:

I like the print on the setting triangles but without something else it looks like it just peters off into nothing.  I also went into EQ and tried adding a 3" print border outside the setting triangles without the inner border so that it made a wider uninterrupted print edge.  That looked good too, so I'm in another quandary.  

Why am I having so much trouble making up my mind recently?????  

Animas mystery quilt guess

I finally fiddled around in EQ and figured out a layout for the blocks made by the Animas quilts mystery.  It may not be their solution, but I think it's going to be mine.  I really like this pattern although if I had bought fabric for the mystery I would have made a few changes.  I was working out of stash so I picked the gold that I had enough of, and it isn't dark enough.  But it'll do.  I have a great rust print for the backing and rust/gold/green plaid for the binding, and enough of the white/green toile for side setting triangles.  I'll wait until the next instruction is posted for November just for curiosity but will probably start joining the blocks my way next week.