Progress on Two Dogs

When I started on the Sirius dog pattern, I wasn't sure if I wanted to cut the dogs in half and swap them.  But after I had both of the dogs made, they did look a little boring, so I went ahead and made the cut.

I wasn't sorry I did it.

Instead of making two mini-quilts, like the pattern did, I want to put both of them in the same quilt.  Even though there's lots of color going on, I thought a setting with just these two dogs would be kind of boring.

So I fussy-cut my inspirational fabric and made some small blocks to throw in the mix.  The quilt has to fit in an area 17" wide x either 24" or 35" long.  To get a setting without any overlap, I'm going for the 17" x 35".  

It took a bit of putzing to come up with a layout I liked, but with some additional punches of red and yellow, and small borders of the focus fabric, it should be OK.  At least I thought so yesterday.  We'll see what I think when I get back to this project tomorrow.