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Pinwheel Par-tay!- Week Two!

Here's my next block for week two of the Pinwheel Party Quilt Along.  The original directions say to use 6 different colored fabrics plus the background color. I chose to use 3 different polka-dotted fabrics (yellow, teal, and grey) plus the black background. I also purchased a novelty fabric with dogs on it, thinking that I'd fussy-cut some of the squares to showcase the little dogs.  For this week's block I thought I'd add in some of those little dogs, but I'm not completely sold on it yet.  I'm not sure if I'm really loving the dogs or not.  I have no real plans for this quilt, so if it's a little juvenile with the dog fabric, that's fine- it's not like I've planned it to go in our bedroom or something.  

Here's the block (I did a better job matching up the pinwheel but that top row is a bit off):



And here it is next to last week's block- this will be the beginning of the first row of this quilt:



It's that little dog bum on the bottom left of my block that's bugging me.  I think I might rip that piece out.  But what to replace it with?  A grey square to match the one in the first block?   A solid yellow like the opposite corner?  Or the polka-dotted yellow?

Mull it over and get back to me y'all!


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