The letters are just sitting in place on the quilt top.  Option #3 was the direction I had been envisioning all along.  I’m still not entirely sold on the font for “happiness” — but I definitely want it to be a script.  I just hope I have enough of the fabric in case I decide to do something else…

The log cabin blocks are stolen from another project that I’m never going to finish.

I had to add some some strips to get them big enough.  And now that I’m at this point, I think I want that section to be a row wider.

Luckily I have more log cabin blocks…

Those need additional strips, too, though.

The next trick is to finalize the applique, stitch that, and then quilt it.  And then figure out how to finish the edges.  If I weren’t going to do it on the longarm, I’d actually do an envelope finish, or whatever you call it.  As it is, I think I’ll have to do a facing.

Hmmm, the first thing  I’d better go do is stay stitch the outside edges so I don’t pop all those seam allowances open around the edges…

Or maybe I should quit goofing around with new quilts when I have other things to do…