Solids and Stripes

Recently I have been investing in commercial cotton solids, and have discovered how much faster it is to hand over the credit card compared to dragging out the dye equipment.  I was thinking I was augmenting my hand dyeds but it turns out that my hand dyes are augmenting my solids. I am calling that  stack a rainbow, pretty much. OK a pastel rainbow, but it's summer so that's appropriate.
Then I thought I would pull fabrics to coordinate with one of my new stripes and wouldn't you know it, I am right back at Roy G. Biv... a box of kindergarteners' crayons.
 Will I ever get past red, yellow and blue in my work?
ON the other hand, they do look scrumptious together, so I may let bygones be bygones and do up a quilt with these, when I can settle on a design.
In the meantime I decided to clean up the studio and store the leftover strips from my recent Stripathon, which is pleasant work for an afternoon. I have a small box of print strips and an even smaller box of solid strips. I am grouping them by color so I can remove a group when I need them.
Putting all of those away was a satisfying feeling.
And then....

I wanted to sew SOMETHING. Anything. So the box got reopened and I just started putting strips together. And in no time at all I have a small beginning or a small work, depending on what I feel like next time I enter the studio.
















Now here's what's interesting to me about this piece. I would probably never decide to make a quilt with these colors, but just doing this improv work shows me that I can expand my usual palette and get out of myself. I should make this a regular challenge. The nice thing is that these analogous colors automatically work well together. I should know this. OK I am learning this.
I should mention that I never did get my boards yesterday for the new pin up walls. Since I am going to town for knitting today, I am hoping to load them in my van and find the Command hooks at Staples, if not at Lowe's.

And now, your Daily Dawgs. ZZZZzzzzzz