I find it boring, but in a straight quilt of 6 x 8 in a
rainbow, there’s not a lot of room to bend the rainbow
Diagonal rows:
I kind of like the diagonal, but do we lose the rainbow at
this point?
Chevron:
If the diagonal lost the color theme, then the chevron just
takes it a step farther down the lost path. I like the idea of a kind of arrow or "arch"... but when put on the table, it doesn't make the cut.
Just a hot mess, and NOT just because some of my block got twisted as I walked around the table & put them all together! 
SO I’m sick of putting all 48 of these blocks on the table,
walking around & re-arranging… but someone had a cool idea… how about if I
turn the blocks upside down for every other row, or for each half of the
quilt? HMMM… I might have to put some
rows together right side up & upside down, and then see how to combine
them. I like the idea. It JUST might work… at least better than the
straight rows.
Thinking... thinking... thinking... needs more thought. I'll give y'all the verdict later... but for now... notice, this kind of playing around with the layout requires a few things... first, the camera so that you can remember & put them next to each other, it takes WAY too long to arrange & re-arrange so you can see them back & forth. Second, a big area to use to play with them... ALSO, you've got them all pressed so you're not dealing with lumpy seams on top of all the unfinished edges and the fact that the stupid blocks will twist & turn on the table since they're not completely together yet.
AND an imagination.... preferably one that can think in patterns, so that you can envision the chevron and set the blocks in place to make it work. ANYONE can think in a stripe, but if you can figure out how to move the stripe over by one block, for every new row... you've got a good start.
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