Deciding on fabrics for Ostrich

It took me awhile to decide on the design for Round 4 of the Ostrich Challenge.  Then, I needed to decide on the fabrics.  I started by laying out all the fabrics from my stash that I thought might be usable in the quilt at some point.

This particular design calls for a clear light, medium and dark.  So, I utilized the gray scale feature on my phone to alter the image so that I could be sure I was close in the organization of the value.

I'm not going to lie.  This step took like three days (only because I'm still healing).  But at least it was progress.

Next, I chose the fabrics I preferred for the light.  Since I had already done the math, I knew how much I would need for each value.  The ones on the left were the ones I liked, but I didn't have enough of any of them and I really didn't want this round to be scrappy.  So, what does a girl do?  I went to my stash that I'm using for On Ringo Lake (Bonnie Hunter) and found two optional fabrics.

I continued to weed out the medium and dark fabrics as well , knowing I couldn't use medium or large prints, ones that had too much color variation in them, or ones that weren't enough yardage.

After that, I auditioned each and every combination of the remaining fabrics.  And this was my final choice.  I always find it interesting when it ends up being different than what I had originally thought it might be.  It is the dark fabric that I hadn't planned on choosing, but I liked it best in the end.

Don't have the energy to cut it up yet.  But at least I know what is waiting for me.