It's a different arrangement again

I decided not to use either star in the little word quilt on my wall. So now I have the beginnings of a wonky star quilt in black, red and neutral, or maybe another priority hope quilt. For now, they're going into the parts drawer. Below is the final arrangement of "A different thing". It's different than my other arrangements. I made more friendship star blocks, this time with red points, and more nine patches, and threw in a few more red squares.

The red borders are on, but not the black ones. I'm sort of debating cutting off the right side so the words are more centred, or unpicking the "altogether" row and moving it to the right, but then again, the forces of inertia say no. Actually, I did unpick it after looking it this way for a couple of hours. I have a sharp, new seam ripper and I got it apart and back together in about 45 minutes. It looks much better. Right now is 36 inches wide and about 24 high without the black. I had intended to make this mostly about the words, but I decided halfway through I wanted more variety in the background, so I started sewing two inch squares together in various neutrals to make stars and nine patches. This probably won't be much fun to hand quilt because of all the seam allowances, but I'll take the needle to it anyway. If you look carefully, you can see the bottom row patches are wonky, mostly because the letters were a different height.

For those of you who are Steve Bell fans, you'll recognize the lyric.