One week to go...

With the big room available for spreading out the dragon quilt for only another week, work on the dragon quilt is going distressingly slowly. I got two rounds onto the dragon side in the past two days, after putting applique patches on "the men" to integrate that fabric with the pieced area on the other side. You can see their stitching lines near the blue area - that stitching is all the quilting there will be.

One question at this point is - what goes next around "the men"? This area will all be hanging down the sides of the bed. One possibility is 4" of the red used as applique, with leftover bits of "the men" at intervals, and an occasional slash of the other red fabric used in "the men" border -Or - and I think I'll go with this option - blue with swathes of stripey and checked fabric (like in men's traditional clothing). Nearly 400" of this border is needed.
To get back to the dragon side - here are the new blue border and "ladies" border, and at the bottom is a pieced strip I made at the outset of the project - but what will go in between?
First round - 1" wide when it's finished - will be red -292" of it are needed -
The mostly-blue fabrics will go down the sides on the dragon side of the quilt. My stock of japanese fabrics is definitely dwindling. One of the objectives of this quilt is to use them up!
Part of the fun of this project is the ingenuity needed, and the many possibilities and surprises along the way. On the downside, so much thinking and planning is required (have I said this before?) that progress is slow - and with a deadline looming, and a couple of other big (work-related) projects on the go, anxiety is replacing pleasure....

I suspect this will be my last large quilt - much as I like the continuity of the project, and the struggle to reach the goal, and the impromptu method ... the logistics (and long, long seams) (with more to come!) are daunting.