Block 1 in Fat Quarter Stars QAL

 The button for this QAL can be found toward the bottom of the page, it's on http://moosequilts.blogspot.com/.  I enjoyed making the first block though you can see it is in need of a better pressing!  The first designer is Konda Luckau.

I am using a Moda line called Kashmir along with some Primitive Gatherings muslin for background.  The QAL just started today so join me :)...

One of My Favorites

 So I just wanted to share a quilt that I started in a class with Edyta Sitar last August...and yay! got back from my local laq Cathie a couple of weeks ago.  This one is super special to me, I love the colors and the design and it was made using "friendship half-square triangles" that several of my friends and even my aunt contributed.  Edyta had us all sew triangle squares out of beautiful fabrics she provided and then we swapped with each other to give us all wonderful variety. 

The pattern comes from a note card set she sells on her website, http://laundrybasketquilts.com/ called Hannah's Sugar Basket.  The layout is similar to a quilt in her book Friendship Triangles called Album Basket Quilt.

If you have the opportunity to take one of Edyta's classes I highly recommend it, she was so much fun and I am proud to show a finished quilt from her class, something I rarely end up with when I take a class.

Just look at the wonderful quilting!

 Here it is in the beautiful September sunshine...

I give away most of my quilts but this one is staying home!!  Now, dare I hope it cools of enough for me to snuggle underneath it?!

Black Eyed Susan quilt top finished!

Happy Labor Day to you all!  This is what I did today...I finished this sweet top I've been working on to celebrate summer...

 I used a free hand embroidery pattern from one of my favorite blogs, wildolive.blogspot,com. Thanks Mollie!! If you haven't visited her blog, you should as she has such neat things posted.  It's supposed to be a daisy but I think it stands in for a Black-Eyed Susan pretty well!!  I paired it with a Modern Cross block from Susan Beal's book Modern Log Cabin Quilting.  The two blocks are 10" each unfinished.

 The flower fabric is some I've had in the stash since purchasing it at our Quilt Guild's garage sale.  I fell in love with those posies (Pigtails & Pixie Dust by Kathy Brown of The Teacher's Pet) but didn't have a clue what I was going to do with it until I saw the embroidery pattern.  Then I thought the Modern cross block would compliment the flower block well.

I will probably try to take a better picture of the top when the weather cheers up outside, it's pretty gloomy today.  Until then, here it is on my bedroom floor...  It is 53" square.

 Is this flower too sweet, or what?  Makes me happy just looking at it!  I am probably going to hand-quilt this quilt but I am still thinking about it.  Any advice or suggestions on quilting?

Summer can't leave yet!!

This beautiful black eyed susan patch from my garden and a bit of material from my stash has inspired this:

More to come...

As I suspected...

Time got away from me and I have not posted for awhile...not an auspicious start, eh?  Good that I have a small audience lol.  I have been better about getting things posted on Flickr, there are several new blocks and I finished the Rockin' Robin QAL quilt top.  I managed to get a pic before the storm came in and I think it made for an interesting shot with the surrounding colors pretty similar to the colors in the quilt.

I am slowly getting caught up on the Barbara Brackman Civil War QAL and only have 23 more to go to catch up along with the one new block each week. 

I am also joining a QAL that Konda Luckau from moosequilts.blogspot.com is hosting with fat quarter stars.  It starts September 27 if you would like to join in the button is down below to get you there...

So this is blogging...

I made the comment to my quilt group the other day that I wasn't sure I would have anything to say on a blog.  They all started to laugh before I even finished the sentence.  Seems I have a way with words or at least a quantity of them leaves my lips...often...
I have been enjoying reading a lot of your blogs and tutorials and I guess I thought I would try my hand at providing something similar.  Would love to hear your comments on some of your favorite blogs and why they are the ones you keep going back to.
I have been finding myself addicted to a few Flickr groups lately, you can check out my photo stream to see my versions of the blocks.  I have a varied range of favorites, from hand embroidery to Civil War to Modern quilting.