Finishing up February

Since most of this week was still in February, I continued to sew with red, and that worked out nicely because my Stay at Home Round Robin has a lot of red in it!   My first job was to sew together blocks made for the previous prompts from weeks 3, 4, and 5 into one border, and at that point it looked like this:

Border 1: Signature blocks, Border 2: two colors (yellow and white), then a narrow red border to contain all that yellow (!), Border 3: triangles, Border 4: square-in-a-square blocks, Border 5: anything that involves the number 4 (I made four patch blocks).  

And here we are!

Kathleen McMusing had the prompt for Border #6 and she called for using letters or numbers.   Since my SAHRR began with an embroidered block that says "When life gives you lemons..." I decided that another embroidered section would be appropriate!  

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

Next I needed to decide how I was going to use that piece in the final border.  My first idea was to piece it into a wide red section, and finish the whole project with a red border the rest of the way around.  So far, I've just made the bottom section and sewn a red border to the top.

But then those two big blocks of red on either side of the embroidered words started to bother me!  Is that too much red?  (It feels too heavy if you know what I mean!)  I woke up thinking about that this morning - does that happen to you?  So, what if I added another pieced block on either side of the embroidery - like this sawtooth star?  

Maybe!

I'll be making a decision about that in the coming days, and working on a finish for this wall-hanging - the final link-up is March 18th.  But meanwhile, I'm sharing my work on Border #6 with the rest of the SAHRR participants over at Kathleen McMusing's blog.  

Also sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday where purple will be the color for March!  

and at Quilting is More Fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!