Different focus for Arab Spring

I went back through my notes and also reviewed some of the books I have in the house .... I returned to the idea of mosaics and small pieces making up the whole (as in a quilt or wall hanging).  This felt much more like me and my practice.  On Saturday I went with a friend to the Sewing exhibition at NEC - this is always inspirational with some beautiful pieces on show (not quite as good as the Quilt Show in August but who's complaining?) - as I walked round it occurred to me that I could make a quilt with hundreds (!) of small pieces of Arab-like fabrics, of my photographs applied to see-through materials (another theme) and emblematic of many small actions coming together in a ground-swell of activity against the repressive regimes of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

I thought of using black - white - red with touches of green but felt that this was too 'arty' and self-conscious. 

The colours of the countryside are reds, ochres, sand, beige, taupes etc with hints of blue sky and blue sea so I am focussing on those.

I went around the show and bought some appropriate materials including fabric, threads etc and spent today (after dropping in my Professional Practice Road Map on time into Uni) making up squares.

Originally I thought of something quite small like 1 inch then a square based on 140 cm (140 characters in a Tweet).  I have resolved this into a square of 70 cm - this will enable me to manipulate the fabrics in an interesting way and mean that there is something for the viewer to 'read'.

I feel that this is much more what I want to do ...