I really love paper piecing, it's very rhythmic and soothing. And cheaper than therapy. Sometimes. So this is how it came out:
) They only have it in Expresso, Green, and Latte now. Rambling Rose Quiltshop is the one I put on the link for black. They have it for a little bit higher, but have it in black. Plus the other colors I mentioned, and even Blue. Anywho, all that yardage I ordered actually has a purpose this time, rather than just going to my stash. I'm going to use in the quilt I make for my bed. My Cal King bed. Someday. I actually have a pattern picked out for that, but that will be show and tell another day 
Here is a closeup so you can (kinda) see the shimmery detail in the green and white fabrics. The green is just a satiny material I had leftover from making little purses and stoles for my wedding. I got it at Joanns but don't remember anything beyond that. The white/offwhite feathery print fabric I picked up at the LQS (local quilt shop). Unfortunately I don't have the selvage anymore. It is similar to the Michael Miller Fairy Frost in Snow. Of course I've tried time and time again to capture the look on camera, but I'm just not that good of a photographer. If you want to get any Fairy Frost, the bestest place to order it from is Mary Jo's Cloth Store. They have the best price, currently $7.39, and carry 117 colors!!! (oh I see the glow in the dark is at $7.59) The red is a batik I don't know what it is or where I got it. (Gee, aren't I helpful!) This was a really fun block to put together! Definitely easier than the Twilight Forbidden Fruit book cover. Not sure if that's because I've done more paper piecing since that one, or that it is easier. Cat's patterns are very straightforward. I did enlarge it from a 5" finished block to a 6" finished, as that's the size of all my other blocks.
So I redrafted my quilt, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Here are two possible layouts. I'm happy with the positions of each block now, but I'm concerned about spacing. I originally thought to do each block butting up against the other, but I'm not sure I like that. But I'm not convinced about adding sashing between each block. I don't want the quilt to be bigger. Plus I don't want to deal with the math.
So this is what my design wall looks like now. 1 more block down (plus I added the "I am Switzerland" quote to the shield).
And the really cool thing is the pincushion right above it. I got it from Cat for our New Years Exchange. It's cute, has apples on it, and is a nice size and weight. But I already have a pincushion that Elizabeth gave me last year at New Years Exchange. (hmmm...tradition in the making?) Well Cat's pincushion happens to have a metal button on the bottom that sticks to the magnets on my magnetic strip!!!! SWEET!
