Lava meets sky quilt - still planning

OK, after some valuable feedback from this customer, we are ready for step two in the planning phase.

I was able to find 9 new fabrics to add to the pile - here's a picture:

I got 12 cut pieces from each = 96. That brings the total of cut squares up to 384. If you remember, we need 396. We are still 12 short - and may I just say argh :)

And then I found a quilt on Pinterest (what would I do without it). I pinned it to Quilt Magic - in Motion (don't seem to be able to do a screen shot and get it into the blog - sorry. And thought, what a great idea...

We could use 9 cut pieces from the new fabrics - so that's the same number of cut squares from all the other fabrics. This would give us 360 cut squares - 40 short of the original 396. BUT... if we were to do only 21 rows and 17 columns (1 short of the original design), we would have enough cut squares. Then we'd add a border across one side and either the top or bottom that is solid with a couple of the half-triangle squares - like the quilt from Pinterest.
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What do you think? Are you willing to go asymmetrical?

Here are pictures of all the cut pieces - the new fabric has been added so you can see the variation in color. I went heavy one the dark reds like you mentioned which will add some great depth to the finished piece.