The Stroop Effect Revisited

This photo from a month ago

was the last sighting of 

my Stroop Effect project.

(I started it in January 2015 as part of 

that year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge)

Shortly after that photo was taken,

 the free pieced letters and the scrappy 

black on white background squares

were finally laid out on the design wall.

Maybe it was the extended length of time since

my "grand idea" for a crossword puzzle layout,

but seeing the blocks arranged this way 

on the design wall did nothing for me.

For the next three weeks,

I fiddled with the strata blocks

(angles and arrangement)

hoping I would rediscover that missing

 happy "AHA" feeling.

It didn't happen.

Was it the busy background prints?

I removed them - 

but the layout still didn't sing for me.

Was it the clusters of strata blocks

in the four corners?

I removed them -

hoping the letters/words on their own 

would save the original idea.

They didn't.

Note to self:

There would have been 

more layout possibilities 

if I had just gone ahead 

and pieced all of the letters 

for each color word

instead of being so rigid about 

that initial layout idea.

But somehow I suspect 

I sensed this dilemma could happen

as I had already gifted the 

leftover letter fabrics to a friend . . . )

Since the overall proportions of the 

crossword layout felt a bit "squarish"

(13W x 15L or 52" x 60")

I tried removing some of the words.

I liked the look of a 

consistent background color

in these six words.

And then "green" was edited out

leaving five words on the design wall . . .

. . . with all of this colorful goodness

piled on top of my sewing table.

* * *

Clearly it was time to stop and ponder yet again

but with the understanding this project would NOT 

return to another extended period of hibernation! 

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