The new fabrics arrived yesterday - the large scale bird print on yellow, a yellow diagonal, birds and trees on white, and they're perfect. Now I need the yellow, which I'm going to go get this weekend at the local quilt shop, which I do like to support. As I've said before, they're heavier on traditional prints and I lean in a different direction, but they've got a great selection of solids and batiks.
In the meantime, I had a bunch of scraps from the last quilt I made and I was getting really sick of the string quilt I'd started with them. I like the look, but paper foundation piecing isn't really my thing. And then I saw something online that I figured I could do without nearly as much fuss.
So I did. And the scraps from that quilt will make a second since I had so much of the solid. My iPhone takes crummy pictures, I think since I went running with it and sweated all over the darn thing. Son't sweat on your phone. Anyway. The two blocks in the left-most column are done and squared up, the others have been strip pieced to get the scrappy columns but haven't been sewn to the solid yet. I like it. And there's a little girl who has a knit blanket from me, but not a quilt and she's about to move into a big girl bed. I think she might like this.
Perfect for a young lady moving into her first big girl bed.
Posted by: Melissa | February 24, 2012 at 12:35 PM