Finally, this is finished.  I can't really remember when I started working on it, but it has been on my mind for a number of years  A design similiar to this was on the opening of AlexAnderson's Simply Quilts television show. So, first I purchased a book by Barbara Kaempfer called Log Cabin with a Twist.

  Then I dyed 40 pieces of fabric.  Each colorway has 5 gradations of color. I started with a half yard of each one, which is 20 yards of fabric. I was only able to do fat quarters on my last color turquoise because I must have run short of fabric.  What???? I must not have measured correctly.......or maybe it was the clerk who sold it to me! VBG

The book has paper piecing templates in the back, so I let the fabric age for a year or two because I am not a big fan of paper piecing.Then I found an embroidery design and ended up doing the 44 blocks on my embroidery machine.  I got the colors wrong and had to redo three of them and also trying to save a little fabric I cut some of my pieces too small and those blocks had to be redone.  The quilting stitches are done with 30 weight varigated sulky thread.  I threw out a block or two while trying to decide the thread color.  Now it is hanging on my wall, and I am very happy. One less project cluttering up my brain.,