Ooooo That green is gorgeous, Sunshine! I'm going back to green when the red blocks on my quilts for the next 2 or 3 weeks are done. I was going to do yellow, then orange, then purple, but that green is gorgeous. I went through a green phase here and did 10 green quilts then a turquoise stage and did 10 of those. It's a new year. I can do colors in any order. It's just a lot more convenient to have a ton of reds handy instead of having to put them up and drag a ton of the next color out. A lot more gets done if you work through a color group and use up all you can.
Your quilt is going to be a knockout! I love it!
Yeah, I like the monocrhomatic look. A while back I posted several Celtic knots I did. They can be a booger. They are counted cross stitch. I used to take them with me when I had to fly. I made sure the knot and various sections were outlined and shaded where the lines crossed according to the pattern. Then while I was on the plane, all I had to do was the single and predominant color to fill it all in. No thinkig required. It has helped me overcome my fear of flying. Funny thing, there is one, and I may have posted it, I don't recall, but when the plane took off I got the direction of the thread in one row backward. It shows, but I have not changed it because it makes me think of my trip.
This quilt is really more of a Zen activity for me than something to be accomplished. It is repetitive, little thinking involved, and I can zone out for a while at the end of a long hard day.
That must take a lot of skill and planning to outline an area to be embroidered with cross stitch. I'd like to remember that if I ever do any again. The log cabin block is a zen for me. Years ago, I made 23 log cabins for the annual "Jewels of the Platte" show I conducted for 6 or 7 years, I'm thinking there were 7 shows. The last show, I had fibromyalgia so bad, and it was such a harsh thing to put up and remove large quilts, I decided not to do that again. Not only that, but I couldn't stand to quilt any more either, and was sitting a lot just making new fabric quilt tops for the windows for many moons.
Anyway, back to "zen" and techniques, I've learned to make a block (to ensure it looks like it's supposed to look), then measure the lengths, calculate in the seam allowance (1/4") then cut all strips prior to beginning even the center to its same size contrast square. I love it best when all the strips are added in a clockwise order, so you learn to turn the raw edge of the unfinished block and figure out a way to sew logs on so that when you look at the right side, the pieces fall continuously into a clockwise fashion.
It's easy, and I spent much of today doing just that on the last 24 blocks of the 36-block log cabin work. Just the 2 last rows x 24 = 48 more strips. It seems like so few, but I have to stop working occasionally and do something else due to muscle contractions in this chilly weather.
It's so good to hear you're getting a little therapy from your beautiful work, and I appreciate seeing people's own projects from time to time, as I love all kinds of traditional handwork and have had classes in many of them. It's just that when Pfaff granted my shop a dealership, I'd already trained at Theta's School of Sewing at Oklahoma City on my 1471 back when it was "top of the line." In the years we were dealers, I totally loved all the things you could get a sewing machine to do, especially the "pen and ink" look of free motion machine embroidery. Some day when I get all these little charity quilt tops done, I'd like to do a year of machine drawing from my old college sketch book which eventually got filled up. Well, have to get going, Sunshine. Keep us posted when you work on anything.
1) A Barn Raising Scrappy quilt from Big Horn Quilts dot com:
Unfortunately, I think Twiggy was taller than 5'1." 
