I get that bit, thank you
But for the rest of the panel - which is not a square, how do you decide which fabrics and how wide each strip and so forth? How do you physically 'play around' with the choices to see which is going to work best? Or can you do it 'in your mind's eye'? Or do folks draw it out and colour bits in, or rip up coloured paper strips?
If all the pieces are going to be the same size and shape I see how you could cut them and move them around without loss of fabric. But if the shapes are strange, surely you can't afford to cut fabric until you are sure of what you're doing?
I guess manipulation on photoshop would work if you have those relevant computer skills/ (but I don't lol
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