Going rogue (again!)

Back in December, I began a mystery quilt along  and ended up with these blue "Plus" blocks:

I was hoping to pair them with the blue/tan stripe fabric in the photo above, but when the mystery was revealed, there was no place to use the stripes.  Rather than abandon those cute little blocks, I decided to go in another direction, so, I made more blocks and decided to set them on point:

Now my "Plus" blocks were turned into "X" blocks.  My plan was to use the striped fabric as a sashing in between the rows:

But,  then I realized that the stripes on my fabric did not run selvage to selvage.  The stripes were too short to extend from top to bottom.   I had to piece the sashing and match the stripes:

And then I had to do it again!

That striped fabric was really making me work!  😳

At last I had the blocks and sashing ready to sew together:

Inspired by the cover quilt on Kathleen Tracy's book, Small and Scrappy, shown below,

 I added a chunky border of two different blues and a tan calico for the corners:

A solid navy binding will contain it all together:

But first, it must be quilted of course!  It's amazing to me  how an  "out of the blue"  quilt project comes along and I have to just go along for the ride.  This wasn't even a quilt on my to-do list, but somehow it just had to be made.