Every year there comes a point in my state fair project where I have to set aside any doubts I might still harbor and move forward despite them.
That is where I found myself yesterday with all of my concerns about how I would fit together the pieces for the long-stemmed tumbler panels. In the spirit of moving forward, I spent most of the daylight deciding which color squares would go where:

It took awhile, but with all of those decisions finally made, I began the trepidation filled task of doing the actual piecing. I have been, to some degree, playing a game of catch up with regard to this project since I began it, and I knew that some things would fit and some things would not.
One of the things that did not fit as I would like was the block of four, four-round squares:

If I were a different person with a different aesthetic, I could have let it go, used some other color to fill the gap, and been on my merry way, but I am me, and instead of doing that I completed a final round (a tutorial about this method will be available after I finish the project) using the four colors of the four squares that comprise the block, and got the fit I wanted:

Then, before the sun descended on an already too brief day, I got this photo of my overall progress:

I have one week left to get this project done, and I am sure that the next seven days will be some of the longest and shortest days of my life.
Sending mojo fairy to hover over and about you and your winning design. You go girl!!!
Looking forward to seeing the finished project! Sending my mojo, too! 🙂