My Tula Pink experiment

I am working my way through Tula Pink's fabulous book."100 modern quilt blocks", trialling different blocks and attempting to improve my accuracy. The plan is to quilt each block to then practice my free-motion quilting, before I compile the blocks into something. This way I can flick through my already growing stash and try out combinations and contrasts with the colouration as I go...

Not too keen on the colour balance of this block, I think the star fabric is too "sudden" against the teal elephant piece, or maybe the peculiar balance of the block design needs a more subtle interplay? I am angst ridden about the mismatch of the top to the lower part of this block too. I have a ready deconstructed it once to try and even out the disparity, but not sufficiently. I think I must have mis-cut the upper part...hmmm.

I really love the layout of Tula's book it is very simple but effortlessly clear, and the sketches are gorgeous..I want to compile an individual stash of just her fabrics... 

 The stars and elephants are better here, but I think this is bea=cause they are in smaller units and the red surround pulls them together nicely

My piecing is improving ....slowly....