Felix's quilt

So I've just started on Felix's quilt. Here are the colours:

Does that not just scream teenage boy. Not that Felix is a teenager yet. He's in that weird tween zone between being a kid and a teenager than yawns on and on for what feels like a decade.

We're doing an Amish Four Patch for him.

this is me about a tenth of the way through making eleventy hundred 2 1/2 inch squares. I thought I'd loathe it but really, I love the process as much as the end result!

Here I'm playing with the squares:

The pattern called for the coloured four patch squares to contain all the colours - in this case a red-pink/purple and a red-pink/green but the way Felix collated them (I'm trying to get the boys involved when I'm making a quilt for them) was for a purple square and a green square. Of course, once he saw them all sewn (I did this when he and Oscar were at Dad and Sue's) he thought there'd be a red/purple and a red/green in each patch. Oh well. He's happy.

The way I've currently got the first few rows laid out has them going in a diagonal pattern across the quilt. I'm not convinced this is the best idea, fancying the idea of randomising them all but always having the red-pink in the same placement. What are your thoughts?

Here's a better idea of the colour palette and how it will ultimately look

The outer border will see me using my first ever Kaffe Fasset fabric - the pictures here do not do it justice, making it look a bit muddy when in fact it is fabulous.

And the yellowy-green fabric just works magically with it all, creating a real zing.

They are certainly not colours I would have worked on together but it's what Felix wanted and yet another lesson in how things you don't think of do come together nicely.

Now to start sewing all the squares together.