Design for "Second Chance" quilt

So, last night I sat down and worked with the design from my first quilt, trying to update the design into something I would want to make again. I thought that since many of the more modern quilts have larger blocks of color (but I'm limiting myself to black and white), I would just see what the blocks blown up would look like...

It's hard to photograph white in my house after the sun goes down... and it's winter in New England; the sun's always down. So, imagine the taupe areas as white... and these things are still dead boring. So, I moved on.

I thought that I would really like to use circles, but I didn't want applique, so I moved to drunkard's path block thingys. Again, imagine white...

Cute enough and I might actually do it one day, but it did not look in the least like it was inspired by the pattern from my first quilt, so I scratched that and started over again. And landed on this... 

I think it definitely looks like it was inspired by this... (mostly because it was)

I think that once it's together (with actual white -- fine, I'll let it go), it will look more dramatic and vibrant. Oh, and thanks Quiltography for making the design process relatively painless. Now I just have to see if Quilt Pro 5 can give me templates for 10" drunkard's path blocks or if I need to break out the protractor and poster board.