The Start of Two Dogs

I have three dog patterns laying around the house, so I think I ought to make some of them.  I'm starting with my most recent acquisition.

The pattern is by Stephanie Nordlin and its name is "Sirius Fun".   You're supposed to make two dogs, then slice them in half and swap their halves.  I'm not sure I'm going to do that.

I could have just bought the kit, but I thought I should use up my own fabric.  It took me forever, and I mean forever, to pick my fabrics.  Like this, they don't look the greatest.  BUT...

This fabric is going to play a prominent part in the quilt and I think it does a good job of pulling everything together.  At least that was my intention when building the dogs.  Plus the white gives a nice break from all the saturated color.

So far, all I've done is fuse the fabric.  But like I said, picking out the fabric was the hard part and everything will be much easier from here on.