okay, as promised, pix of the latest top. Sorry it isn't quite as clear as it looked on my phone. ={
The red and white quilt above isn't mine, but it's the one that inspired mine. I had been looking for a block to work with some batiks I had collected. Yeah it's sideways, but you get the, erm, picture.

Here's the layout of mine. I think I'll call it "Cacophony of Cups". Or Stanley. I haven't yet made up my mind. Yeah. It's pretty busy. It took a great deal of time and effort to lay out the block in such a way as to not have the same colors immediately next to one another, to develop some sort of rhythm and flow. I wanted to make sure that, since there are so many colors and patterns, that the eye feels comfortable moving from one place to another, that no one place is to dark or too light. That was quite a challenge. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to do one quite like this again. I really hated sewing in those angles. Well, hate's a strong word. Yeah, I'll stick with "challenge", on both a skill level (for me) and sanity level.
I worried a lot about this one. The Dresden was easy by comparison.