Oh Joy, continued

(I'm messing with the time stamp so this appears below the first Joy post. I wasn't REALLY up working on this at 5 am)

In comments to the last post, Karen suggested I switch the order of the butterfly row and the pieced basket row to get alternate plain and cornered rows.

The only "problem" I see with that, Karen (and it's not a problem, per se, just my anal-ity) is that the curvy baskets corner triangles are littler than the others. Those are the only ones that size, which may or may not be a big deal. My feeling is that there's enough "almost" symmetry in this top that I should try at least to pull it together. Denise was thinking about triangles anyway, I emailed her last night, but she's made EIGHT butterflies to go on 6" blocks, so that won't work. If I only use 6 butterflies, on 8" blocks, theres' more room (plenty for the corners) but they do look cute on the littler squares.

There's also only ONE pieced row, and if I can, I'd like to balance that element too. I could do Air Castles mixing the colour placement up a little. Barbara Brackman lists the block as AKA Towers of Camelot (Nancy Cabot 1937) so the design fits timewise too. I've emailed Denise about using only 6 of the butterflies, and if she's okay with that, I'll add the little HSTs to her corners, and solve that little bugaboo. In that case, I'm thinking that a simple pieced block like Shoo Fly will add that second pieced row, will echo that round shape of those beautiful flowers, and balance the un-cornered-ness as well. The simplicity of Shoo Fly looks good in 30s prints, too, I think.

Or maybe I'll just put it up for today and make some string blocks.