Something's Not Right On The Farm

In May, I bought some fun farm animal fabric in BC. I started cutting out some animals in the summer, but never did anything with it until last week.

I tried some wonky arrangements, but I'm not quite happy with my dancing farm animals. Way too much background yellow.


At this stage, I have a 3-2-2-3 block layout, 3 blocks for the piggies on the top and bottom rows, 2 blocks for the bigger farm animal squares in the two middle rows. (I feel like I'm describing a soccer-strategy ;)

The 10 yellow blocks are still loose at this stage, and I'm trying to figure out how to fill up the space in between.

Should I quilt something elaborate with brown thread matching the pig-frames?

Should I redo the 4 middle blocks to frame the farm animals? (I'd really like to avoid that)

Should I sash the blocks?

Applique something?

Other ideas?

I'd appreciate your input!