Here are blocks for the challenge quilt, thus far. I redesigned the quilt in my head Sunday evening while we were at Christ Community Church to see "King of Kings."
Meanwhile, I have come down with a cold that is keeping me at home for two days. (How nice of my DH to share it with me!) In between working on library business at home, and napping, I finished this scrappy top. It began as leaders-and-enders, using 2.5" squares. I often get impatient when making L-and-E projects. I just go ahead and crank out quantities of the units and assemble them. This is about 74" x 86".
When I ran out of the speckledy sashing fabric I substituted a similar slate blue (the vertical strip). (I got these circa-1990-slate blues from an estate purchase. I swear they haven't been in may stash that long.) The border is one of those "I can't bear to cut this up" fabrics that I have had for, oh, five or six years. (I still have a yard of it, so I don't feel totally bereft. )
Years ago I read an article by a famous quiltmaker who said she tried to use a bit of orange in each of her quilts to add sparkle. I don't remember who that was or where I read it, but that's why I often have an orange (or somewhat orange) inner border.