I started quilt 3 from a kit I bought at K&H Quilt Shoppe. It's from a pattern called All A Flutter by Bonnie of the Cotton Way. The fabrics are from one of my all time favorite fabric collections, Happy Go Lucky, by Bonnie's daughter Camille. You can find it at the Fat Quarter Shop. I just love every single fabric and tone in this collection. All I have left to do is cut the white on white and I'll be ready to start assembly!
Quilt #4 belongs to my son ... we searched high and low to find a pattern he liked and it wasn't until I went to my first guild meeting where I met Caroline Friedlander at her trunk show that we found the perfect pattern, Aeriel! So we set out to our local quilt shop to see what we could find for fabrics. I told him he could choose whatever he wanted for the quilt, and that it would be his job to put the color combinations together when it was time to sew. He's excited about it, I'm a little nervous ... I'm finding it hard to give up creative control and just let him choose what he likes. :) Regardless, he found some fabrics he loved and after I get the templates from the pattern copied, I'll be ready to learn to paper piece!!
And then, quilt 6 kind of accidentally happened. It really came down to the fact that I didn't want to watch the Superbowl, but I live in a razed Superbowl family ... so I decided to give a little english paper piecing a try ... and I'm hooked!! I love it! My goal is to make at least a twin size quilt without buying ANY fabric for it. Everything will be made with scraps. What I'd really love to do is somehow reach out to the quilting world and see if other quilters would be willing to send me some of their little square scraps so it could have a little more specialness to it :) We'll see if that works out or not! Either way, I have plenty to do and am having SO MUCH FUN quilting, meeting new quilters, learning new things and feeling creative again!!
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