Trial and error. Error and trial.

I spent the week prepping to make the brownstones on the left side of the Boston quilt. I printed the full size pattern and started thinking about what fabrics to use for the background of these 2 brownstones.

Here is the original photo. 

Initially I thought that the blue violet used in other parts of the quilt would be the background.

Choice #1

Then I thought the red violet would look better and ordered more of those fabrics.

Choice #2

Choice #3

Then I thought about blues for these 2 brownstones. I even picked one that has some of the teal shades in it that the sky scrapers have.

Choice #4

Choice #5

Then what about red violet and blue?

Choice #6

Of course these buildings run from top to bottom and will have features like windows and trim that will cover a lot of these background fabrics. That will change how they look drastically. So even after I am done choosing the background lots of other choices remain to be made!

I'm leaning toward #4 or #5, but could be convinced of anything! I think just the red violet is pretty dull and boring. But then I could incorporate blues into the windows and trim if I made that choice for the background. Or incorporate red violet as windows and trim if I choose the blue options. What do you think? This would be so easy if I did not struggle so much with fabric choices........

Linking to Nina-Marie. 

Thanks for reading.

Chris