One of the current projects I'm working on involves this tulip quilt top, which I bought off ebay. At least, I think it's a tulip. Maybe it's a poppy -- or some other flower? At any rate, I bought the top because I liked the colors and the flowers and the vines and leaves. I wasn't wild about the big blocks of solid red, though ...
So I took the thing apart and started playing around with it ...
Well, that didn't work ... So I played around some more and came to this "four-block" arrangement, which I really love --
Next step (after I work out a few piecing kinks) is to decide on borders -- and there are lots of examples from vintage quilts. Plus, I have all that leftover red to work with! Stay tuned ...