Take a gloriously bright jelly roll:
Add a few more brights from the stash:
Combine with a mysteriously mottled black batik:
Sew like a crazy person until you can put together a few blocks and see how it will all turn out:
Satisfied that you won’t go blind when looking at the finished quilt, continue sewing until you end up with this:
The pattern came from this book:
Jelly Roll Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott