I think the color orange shouts "look at me," it's like when someone sneaks up behind you and startles you --but you are happy to see them. Combining a color scheme in a design takes a lot of thinking, especially when I am also figuring out the design. And while I have heard it said that quilting is time consuming, I think the planning takes the most time, it's so much math!! The truth is, as a beginning quilter, I have yet to follow a pattern. I have "invented" my handful of projects on my own because I thought is was easier, what was I thinking? Size about 12 x 36 inches This was my big Summer Craft for 2009 and it was my second quilting project, they get a little bigger as my skills and confidence improve. Each quilt usually has some new technique I haven't tried before. I have really taught myself, by reading all types of books on quilting that I have bought over the last few of ye...