My Guild challenge block

I just realized that I didn't share with you the brown bag Guild challenge block that was made for me.  I wrote about it in a previous post, but in short, we did a brown bag challenge where you put fabric in a bag and someone else will design/make a block with your fabric and present it to you in September.  

The person that got my bag knows I like scrappy and so decided to do these bear paw blocks from an online source allpeoplequilt.com.  She even gave me the print out of the instructions, in case I want to do more and make something larger.  I like the bear paw block!  I even made a string version for myself several years ago.  I love that quilt! 

I think I will make more blocks, as I love the colours and background fabrics.  They have a bit of an autumn feel.  My other quilt is for my king size bed, so maybe I'll make a lap size for this one and keep it in the den.  The colours look so cozy.

Take care everyone.

Colour families and using up my solids

I posted about starting this quilt yesturday.  I am really happy that I have finally gotten around to sorting out all of my scraps into colour families.  My strings and tiny pieces have been sorted for a long time now, so I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to these scraps, but they're done now too.   

It took me a while to finish ironing the last batch of scraps, the blue ones at least, as they were mainly strings and smaller pieces, with just a few chunks.  I did have enough time though to play a bit with the colour blue.  There are a lot of different shades of blue!  The solid blue pieces are all cut to size.  These are all the different shades of blue solids I have.

Here we have some blocks completed.  This is a 4 1/2" crazy square (finished size 4"), surrounded by the matching solid blue border.  Do you like them?

I am doing this type of block for each and every solid colour fabric I have.....  That will take me a while, but these crazy scrap blocks are so fun to make!  I still have to confirm how many blocks I will actually need for this quilt.  I may decide to keep the greys and low volume beiges aside to make a neutral quilt....we'll see.

This is a simple block and one that I have wanted to do for a long time.  I decided, while I was sorting out my chunks of fabrics, to just jump right in and do them.  If you want to do one too, here are the measurements that I am using to make these blocks.  Each block will measure 8 1/2" square and finish at 8" square.  

You don't have to do a crazy block in the centre for your version.  You could decide to do one piece of fabric and maybe even fussy cut stuff to make it a sort of I spy quilt.  Do as you wish and enjoy!!

Take care everyone.

A continuation of yesturday

Yesturday, I did go back downstairs and finish ironing all the solids and recently purchased yardage.  The solids are for a quilt that I will be making, with all of my coloured scraps.  When I was done with my solids, I stacked them all up and put them on the edge of my sewing table to work on today.  I want to cut 2 1/2" strips from all of them to be used as borders.

While I was standing there admiring the rainbow stack of solids, my eye caught on to something, that got me questioning what I was seeing.  It took a few seconds to register that I was looking at a container with more scraps......oh boy!  Another thing to sort, but at least these ones are already ironed and sorted into similar sized scraps.  For my next project, that I plan to start today, I need all the fabrics sorted into their different colour families.  This shouldn't take too long....

I even got to that bag I was talking about with all the strings.  I sorted them into colour families, to make it easier to iron and work with, one colour at a time.  I didn't realize that the bag had more than just strings.  It had some chunks in it too.  Today I plan on tackling both the container above and the stacks in the picture below.  It will be slow, but one colour at a time and it will get done.

My blue stack is on the ironing board all ready, so I'll start there.  If I don't have enough of the particular colours I need, then I'll dig out the small tiny pieces in my drawers.  I'm really hoping to make a dent in my scraps with this quilt.  I know for sure the solids will be coming down.  Some of those pieces were only half of a fat quarter.

Oh, what fun I am going to have today!!!  I'm going to be making some crazy scrap blocks.  I can't wait!

Take care everyone.  I'll share some finished block photos later.

What's happening here?

Today, I am spending a relaxing, but productive time in my quilting studio.  I am finally getting around to sorting out all the bits and pieces that have accumulated over time, while making other quilts.  I have a basket that I keep close to my cutting station and when I trim stuff, if it is bigger then a "scrap", I consider it a chunk and will put it in the basket, to get sorted into colour families at some future date.  That day is today.

Some of these piles were started a while ago, when I was washing up fabrics that had been given to me.  I always sort by colour.  For me, it seems to work better and it gets used up faster too.  I still have a bag of strings to iron and add to these piles, but that may not get done today.  I have been periodically taking the bag of strings to my mom's place and ironing them there, as she does some sewing and stuff.  So it is dwindling down, but I just added a bunch more strings to it.....lol.  Never ending task, it seems!  I'm not complaining about it, just commenting on it.  I do love my scraps!!

While I was going through that basket I mentioned, I came across this chunk of fabric.  So cute!  There is a fair amount of it, that I decided to pull it out and add it to my list of To Do..... One more project won't hurt....lol.  I made a quilt with this stuff already, so now to figure out what else I can make.

I'm currently, just now sitting here having my cup of tea, while I write this post.  I just finished washing and ironing all the fat quarters that I purchased yesturday on our Shop Hop in the Kawartha Lake area.  When I go on shop hops, I go with a theme or a plan, to narrow down what I will get at each store.  Yesturday was Christmas!!  LOL!  Every store I visited, I selected fat quarters and sometimes yardage of red, green and white fabrics.  I have a plan!  More on that in another post.

All of the fabric is washed and I only need to iron the yardage now, which I'll tackle once I am done posting.  I am just taking it easy today, and doing whatever I feel like doing, as I finish the different tasks.  As I am sorting and ironing, I have three quilts on my mind and I'm keeping an eye out for suitable fabrics for each.  Again, I have plans!!  LOL

Take care everyone.  Hope you're all having a great day!!  Don't forget to take time for yourself.

Guild block challenge

The HHQG (Halton Hills Quilters' Guild) brown bag block challenge started June/2025 at our AGM.  All the participants were to bring a non-descript brown back with some of your favorite fabrics in it.  By the end of the evening, every participant left with someone else's brown bag.  The challenge is that you open the bag, see the fabric, and you have to make an 18 1/2" block.  That is it!  There were not many rules given, other than to make a block and not finish it into anything.

I already had a block in mind for this challenge, and I was hoping there would be suitable fabric to make it.  I saw this quilt block on Fat Quarter Shop YouTube channel.  The pattern required seven different fabrics.  I received a small fat quarter bundle that contained five.  Hhmmmm....

I have to say, that this fabric was a challenge for me.  There was a focus fabric, the green with mushrooms and bugs on it, the peach with small white flowers,  a multi coloured plaid that is in the centre of the block, the large peach plaid and the very loud and bossy background fabric.

Firstly, you have to remember that this is someone's favourite fabric, so they expect it to be used.  My challenge was that I didn't have a simple background fabric.  So, I went outside of my comfort zone and used the loud and bossy fabric, as I couldn't use any of the plaid in it's place, due to all the angles and the peach and green were needed as highlight "star" colours.  In the end, to pull it all together, I added the chartreuse colour for the centre start and the white with green loop design for the corners inside the star.

I hope the recipient likes it.... I am not used to busy backgrounds, but I had to use what I got.  Though there was one thing that really bothered me and I had to do something about it.  Even though the background is loud, I still fell it needs to recede and let the focus fabric stand out.  The problem or should I say my problem, was the outer star was lost, specifically at the bottom.  There was too much dark green blobs of colour up against the green point.

I lived with it for about a month, when I decided I had to change it.  Luckily there was still some of the background fabric left.  So I unsewed the two corners and replaced them with a lighter section of the background fabric.  Now I think it looks much better!!  

Can you tell how much of a difference it makes?  I think this is primarily why we usually go with low volume fabrics for the background, or at least something with less pattern/design.  The block is all pressed and ready to be presented, to the recipient, at the September's back in person meeting.  Now that the block has been presented to the recipient, on Monday, I can now post about it.

Take care everyone.

Pieced hearts quilt top complete

On Sunday, I had a bit of time on my hands and decided to clean up some stuff.  I started with my sewing space.  I gathered up some of my quilts to bring to the Guild meeting on Monday for show and share.  Put labels on the donation quilts for Project Linus.  Cleared off my cutting table and generally tried to straighten up around here.

With all that done'ish...lol...as much as I felt like doing,  I sat down with a cup of tea and examined my list of UFOs.  I have quite a bit on the list now since the recent clean out, but I also have quite a bit of those already done too.  That makes me feel good.

As I sat there, I also looked around, noting a partially started quilt on the floor (the sock monkey quilt) and the various other quilts on my design board.  In the end, I settled for this quilt.  The floating pink hearts on a green background.  I had three blocks done already, which was nice.  So, I set myself up to complete the rest of the blocks.

As you can see the top is now done......wait.....do you know what.....I don't think it's done anymore!  I am looking at this picture and realize that if I want to use a scrappy pink as my binding, I'm going to need to add a small green background fabric border to separate the binding from the hearts.  

Oh well!  I guess I have to pull this top out of the "to be quilting" pile and work on it some more.  Good thing I still have some of this green fabric.  I think I also have just the right backing for it.  More work to be done on this one.  Will share a picture with you when it has the border, is quilted and binding is attached.

An update on the Smith Mountain Morning quilt that our group is making.  Yesturday after work, I made half of the HSTs for the star blocks and assembled them into pinwheels.  I have enough blue cut out to make the other half, however didn't cut enough of the brown.  I'll take care of that today.

Take care everyone.

Mom's Christmas Plaid quilt

I don't think I showed anyone this quilt.  This is my mom's Christmas Plaid quilt.  I quilted this quilt for her back in May/2024.  She did a great job of the piecing and colour placement.  I forgot to get a close up picture of the quilt, so you'll have to enlarge it on your screen.  

The majority of the fabrics are Christmas fabric and maybe about 5% are regular fabrics with the Christmas feel/colour that she was looking for.  The colours are Christmas green and red for the plaid design, the intersecting squares are something that reads as a darker white (ie white with red in it), and the background is white on white fabric.  It's quite effective.  Note lighting was not great, the actual quilt is brighter, as the white is white on white and the colours pop on it.

I took a picture of the backing as well as my mom pieced it.  She has a large collection of Christmas fabrics that she is trying to use up and thought that this would be a good way to use more of it.  The white running down the centre is to make the quilt wider as her quilt was larger then 80" and the white running horizontally is just because she thought it would look nice.  A pieced backing for my mom was to help use up some of her Christmas stash, but it can also save a lot of money.  Have you seen how expense wide back fabric is these days!

You can find this pattern in the American Patchwork & Quilting magazine issue 185, AllPeopleQuilt.com, the barcode says display until 12/01/23.  The spine reads December 2023.  In case you would like to get an issue, with the details above you should have no problems.  Image below.

It's a nice simple pattern to make, but still looks great!

Take care everyone.

Hour glass units and pinwheels

So, lets get back to that newly started quilt that I mentioned back on Sept 14th/25.  The one that our little sewing group is doing together.  Each with our own colourway.  The quilt that we decided to do together is one of Bonnie Hunter's patterns called Smith Mountain Morning, which is in her book called Scraps & Shirttails II, which can be purchased from her website at hhtp://quiltville.com

I've decided to do the same colourway as Bonnie, in the dark blue and chocolate brown.  Since our meeting in September, I was able to finish all the centre hourglass units needed for the courthouse step variation blocks.  My quilt will be king sized so I require more blocks than the pattern calls for.

One of the other members of the group did some hourglass units as well.  Her colourway has mostly medium blues, with some heading toward lighter, but not too light for the primary colour and a raspberry colour all the way to peach for the second colour.  They are looking really good.  I really like those raspberry fabrics.  When I got this photo from her, she was basically just getting started.

She also started making these pinwheel blocks.  These are the centre of the second block, the star.  I love the variety of fabrics she is using.

When I saw the progress being made in the pictures above, I thought to my self that I'd better get a move on it....lol....which is when I made my first pinwheel unit, to check out the size, before making the rest of them.  I now have most of the fabric cut out and will try to find some time to get all the pinwheels done.  

There is no real deadline on these, but when I see that two others are getting a fair amount of parts, units and blocks done, it makes me want to try and keep up.  I haven't even cut out all my fabric pieces yet.....I really should get a move on it....lol.

Take care everyone.

Left over stain glass pieces

Here is a cute little quilt.  I was able to get a quick finish!  It started with these 12 strips left over from a stain glass type quilt.  They were part of the clean up I did recently.  They are all batik fabrics.

I had to think of a way to make these pieces stretch.  That I when I knew it had to be a NICU quilt.  Here is what I came up with.  It's a simple quilt.  I am letting the bright coloured pieces stand out in the background of white.  Note that the binding is not wavy.  It's only because I took the picture with the quilt on the grass.  I quilted this quilt using Overlapping Crop Circles from Urban Elementz.  I liked how the quilting design matches the design on the white fabric.

Here is the colourful backing that I used and that same backing fabric, cut on a diagonal for the binding.

It felt nice to have this NICU quilt done in an afternoon.  Minus the binding, which was completed on another day.  I am working on several quilts that are taking a long time to piece, so a quick finish is exactly what I needed.

Take care everyone.

Stacking bricks top

I last posted about this quilt on Aug 15th, when I started it.  After I quilted a quilt for Quilt of Valour, I just knew I needed to make one.  It is such a great way to use up scraps of odds and sods.  Everything from darks, mediums all the way thorough to lights, and it was such an easy quilt to make.  I can see making this one again! 

I finished this top about a month ago, not long after starting it, and just realized now that I hadn't posted about it.  I showed this quilt top to the the ladies in our little sewing group and one of them said it needed a border.....so....it got put aside for a bit....

This is one of the reasons I have many projects going at the same time.  Things stall out at different stages of construction for various reasons....  I didn't know if I had anything that could be used for the border, and by this time, I thought I was already done with the top, so it took me some time to get back into the mood of working on this one again.  Border is now on the quilt and it is waiting to be quilted.

Take care everyone.  Don't forget to take some time for yourself.

Two more examples of the Heartfelt quilt

I had the pleasure of quilting two more examples of the Heartfelt quilt.  This pattern proves to be very flexible.  I've seen many different versions.  Some people have changed up the words that go around the outer edges, or didn't use any at all, some changed the blocks and others didn't.  They all look completely different from one another.  Everyone has their own colour combinations.  It's absolutely fabulous seeing all the variety.

This quilt was a true scrap quilt, with the maker using up her stash.  I love it!  You wouldn't know it, because even with all the variety of scraps, it still coordinates and messes to make this cohesive heart.

This block, a friendship star is special.  This is the maker's favourite block.  It's special to the maker, because this block was made by her friend.  These two friends, make quilts together.  It doesn't go unnoticed that, a "friend" made the "friendship" star.  How fitting is that, and how special to have a part of your friend stitched into your quilt, to keep and cherish for all time.  This friend also knew just what types of fabrics to use, to help the block blend in to the rest of the quilt.

Now, this quilt was made by that friend of the above quilter.  The same friend that made the above friendship star.  This quilt, like all the others I've shown, has it's own flavour.  Another beautiful representation of the style of fabrics this maker has in her stash.  This quilt was hanging in the June/2025 Quilt Canada show.  What an honour!

This block, also a friendship star, was made by the maker's friend.  The same friend who made the quilt above.  And this friend also knew just what fabrics to use to help the block blend in with the rest.  Special ties and memories will not likely be forgotten.

Both makers are very close friends, each with their own personalities and taste.  It takes special friends to respect each others individualities.  I wish this kind of friendship for everyone!

Working on bits and pieces

Yesturday, after running out to get some Kona solid black fabric, for the pumpkin table runner and finishing that off, I still had some time and energy to work on some other stuff.  I have a few things going on at the same time right now....well maybe more than a few....but consistently working on only five primary quilty things.

After the runner, I started working on this nine patch sock monkey fabric quilt.  I finished one complete row and have all the nine patches done for all the rest of the rows.  It amazes me how much smaller the first row is after it's been assembled.  I'm going to have to do something to make it bigger...

While I was assembling the row from above, I was using the pieces from the heart quilt, pictured in the photo below, as my leader/ender.  Managed to get a full heart done.  For this quilt, I now have three blocks done and six more to go.

Today I am going to do more of these two quilts and hopefully get them both to top status.  It will either be these or quilting various tops that I have ready.  We'll see.... I'm kind of leaning toward these two...

Take care everyone.

Pumpkins anyone?

This will actually be the first Halloween table runner that I've ever had!  I don't know why.  I decorate for Christmas, but none of the other seasons or occasions.  Well, I do a bit of Halloween decor outside.  Now I have this table runner for my table.  

This was a panel that was in a drawer for a long time and got pulled out recently and added to my list.  I can now cross something else off the list.  It was made and quilted over a week ago, however I didn't have any black around here to bind it.  So, after work today, my mom and I headed to Len's Mills to get some solid black Kona fabric and I picked up some special batting that has the tinfoil in it for hot pots and heat resistant stuff.  Now I can also work on that project too.

I have to smile when I look at these pumpkins.  Their cheerful.  Below I took a close up of the quilting.  I used the Along Came a Spider pantograph for this one.  I like how spider stands out in some spots and the webs stand out in other spots.  In this picture you can also see the backing fabric, which is a print of spiders and webs....lol...not a coincident that I quilted this pattern on it.

Here is a picture of the whole runner.  Came out much larger then I thought it would be.  It just fits my table!  I placed this runner on the counter for the light background instead of the black carpet....lol....but you should have seen me....lol.... standing on a stool balancing myself, while trying to stay out of the light casting shadows with my phone practically up at the ceiling height, just to get the whole thing in the shot....lol.  Thinking about it now, after the fact, makes me laugh.  How silly I must have looked!

I'm glad I got to this.  It's just in time for Halloween. It's already on the table.  Slightly early, but oh well.

Take care everyone.

Sock monkeys

It all starts with these triangle pieces that I was given, by someone who made a quilt, changed her mind on the colour of these triangles and went for something else.  Now, I've had these triangles for probably a couple years, sitting in a drawer and forgotten.  However, when I put my room back together recently, I found them and decided to add them to my list, so that they can get used and out of here. 

Ideas.....sometimes they come easy and sometimes they don't....  I usually don't think too hard about it.  I let my mind work on it, in the background of everything else I'm doing.  These last couple of weeks the triangles kept popping up, so I knew I had to do something.....but what?  Do I do any of the numerous log cabin layouts with the triangles and some darker colour on the other side, similar to the layout below?

Or do I do something like this one below, where the triangles frame some sort of block in the middle?  Something like a bar quilt.  My mind was just looking for a layout that I wanted to do....

Yesturday, in the wee hours of the morning, when I was barely awake, it all became clear to me!!  I remembered a particular fabric that I had and from there everything just clicked into place.  The fabric I thought of was this brown, with large red polka dots, that I used in these nine patches.  

This fabric is part of the sock monkey line of fabrics.  The white background fabric is also part of that line.  I bought these fabrics on clearance several years ago, but didn't know what I wanted to do with them.  They were marinating in the cupboard, waiting for there moment to come out and play.  That moment is now.  

Here is how it is coming along so far.  Just getting started and I think I like the way it is turning out.  

I think it was meant to be!  When I calculated how much of this brown with red polka dot fabric I needed, to complete the layout, I had just enough, with only one 2" strip left.  There are 25 nine patches in this quilt.  I managed to get 7 of them done yesturday.  The fabric is already all cut out, so today I will likely try and get the rest done after work.  Stay tuned for how I build this quilt out....I think it is going to be so cute!

Take care everyone.

A finished tote

I started this Twister Tote back on August 8th.  My mom had a different pattern for a tote and so we decided to work on them together.  So on the Friday we started working on them.  Most of the prep work for both of the bags was the fusible batting to help the bag hold it's shape and for my bag I had to make the twister panel first.

We didn't finish the totes that day, as we ended up having to go out for something and by the time we got back it was time to prepare dinner.  The following week though, I manage to get my tote fully assembled with two inner pockets on each side.  Here is the front:

Here is the back:

It didn't turn out bad.  It's a nice size.  Large, but not overly large and the handles are just the right size to carry it over your shoulder or from you hand, without it touching the ground....for me anyways....I guess it depends on how tall you are...lol.

My daughter has already claimed this tote for herself...lol.  Oh well, guess I'll have to just make another.

Take care everyone.

We all started a new quilt!!

Yesturday was such fun!!  Our little group had so much fun working on the Heartfelt quilt, that we decided to continue meeting and working on our own stuff.  As happens when quilters get together, we talk about all sorts of things.  We were sharing ideas and chatting about what is on our bucket list of quilts.  Someone would reveal a quilt pattern on their bucket list and others would agree.  It didn't take long, before we landed on one quilt in particular, that seemed to speak to four of us, and as a group we decided to start this new quilt come the start of the new Guild year.

The time came yesturday!  We were so excited to be starting another quilting adventure together.  I'm not going to tell you the quilt pattern we chose just yet.  I'll keep you in suspense a bit longer.  Today I want to share with you the various colourways we all went with.  Like the last time, we dug into our stashes and pulled out some fabrics to share with each other of each colourway that was chosen.  This was great, as it provided a larger variety of patterns and shades of colour.

This first colourway has mostly medium blues, with some heading toward lighter, but not too light for the primary colour and a raspberry colour all the way to peach.  Later on in the piecing stage, you'll get to see just how much variety there will be in these two colours.  This one picture does not do it justice.

  

Next we have a blueish turquoise teal range for the primary colour with a magenta type purple through to some pinky burgundy.  This one is harder for me to describe.  Mostly purple and teal, but again, this one picture does not do the full colour range justice.

Third up, we have softer more warm colours of greens with slight dustiness to them from dark to light for the primary colour and burgundy ranging to an almost red burgundy all the way to an almost purple shade of burgundy.  Such a lovely selection.

Lastly, you have my colourway.  I decided to go with a mainly navy blue for my primary colour, but with some medium blues added in for contrast.  My secondary colour is chocolate brown, mostly dark chocolate all the way to milk chocolate.

Some of us were still cutting fabrics, others were piecing.  Some of use have changed the pattern to suit our own taste or needs.  One person is adding in her own selection of blocks to merge together with the actual pattern blocks and the size of the quilts are different all the way around too....I think...  We don't have a schedule or anything.  We'll just go with the flow.  I think I can safely say that we all, including the one person that decided not to do this specific quilt, had a great time getting together yesturday!

Today I am going to put this quilt aside to work on some others that I want to get done from my list.  Later during the week, I'll try to finish cutting some of the pieces for this one to get them ready for the next step.

Take care everyone and enjoy your day.

Colouring technique using Inktense

This was an interesting side project.  Tracey from Whirls and Swirls had a Sunday meeting set up in May/2025 in Oshawa.  I attended and met up with some other longarm quilters, that I haven't seen in a long while.  Oshawa is a bit far now that I live in Acton.  But every once in a while is all right.

This meeting was a technique of fabric colouring.  Tracey had pre-quilted all the designs on white fabric and we used them with Inktense and a medium to work the colour in and do blending.  When you first colour your design, the colour is very muted, very much like pastel colours.  Then when you brush on the medium the colours spark and become so vibrant.  Didn't look like the same thing at all!

I tried to do some blending of the colours, but as you can see, it was not very consistent.  Pretty good for my first time and if I were to do it again, I would try and do some blending ahead of time with the crayons first.  I think that would help with the consistency.

This piece is about 9" x 12" and I was able to finish all the colouring and applying the medium in the time of the meeting.  When I got home, all I had to do was apply the binding to finish off the piece.

These were the specific crayons that were used for the project.  You can get them on Amazon.

As I said, it was an interesting side project.  Would I do this again.....likely not, but I can see some applications for people who do art pieces with say mostly quilting and just need to add in a bit of highlights, or say a special block in a wall hanging that you want to stand out.  I'm sure there are other uses as well, but at the moment, I don't see a need for me.  That can change at a later date....  It was nice to try though.  And who doesn't like colouring.....lol.

Today I am having the ladies over to do some sewing.  Four out of five of use are going to be making the same quilt pattern, just like we did when we worked on the Heartfelt quilt.  I'm excited to finally get this one started.  We've been planning it almost since the time we finished making the Heartfelt quilt.  I'm hoping to get pictures of us working on this new quilt.  Just like the last quilt, everyone has chosen their colourway and none of them will be the same.  So exciting!!   

Take care everyone.

Simple hearts quilt

Of all the things I should have or could have been doing, this was definitely not it!!  

After work yesturday, I made my way down to my quilting studio.  I took one look around and decided I was going to quilt my houses quilt.  The final border was finished a few days ago.  I quilted the top, but want to wait until I have it trimmed and bound before I post about it again.  I ran out of time to do that, before I had to go make dinner, and after dinner, I just wanted to chill.  

I didn't want to do anything really, or at least nothing that "had" to be done.  I just wanted to zone out and putter.  While waiting for the oven timer to go off, I was browsing my photos on my phone.....this is not always a good thing.....lol.  Too much inspiration!  

When I finally make my way back down to the studio after dinner, I pulled out my folder of pink and red chunks of scraps.  I worked quickly, so that I wouldn't take too much time thinking about what I am about to do.... I know myself and know that if I have it in my head to do something, there is likely nothing that is going to stop me....not even good sense and reason....lol.  

I cut out a small stack of 3 1/2" strips of pink fabrics in a more muted pink colourway.  I took out the Easy Angle ruler and started cutting out triangles, then squares and stacked them in groups.  Then I headed to the cupboard to see if I had one piece of yardage for the background.  I wanted something with colour.  I cut a bunch more 3 1/2" strips of this unique green, sub cut the strips into triangles, some squares and the rest 12 1/2" strips.  Ta da!!!  I have a quilt all cut out.  

It wasn't too late, by the time all of this was done, so I proceeded to assemble a block.  One block done and eight more blocks to go.  I'll leave you on a cliff hanger and only show you a block.  I'll share the intended pattern with you, when I get the quilt further along.  What do you all think of this unusual green colour?  It's very different for me, but I think I am liking it.  It is bright, but in a soft sort of way....if that makes sense.  I am also liking the softer pink pallet.

I did enjoy my time sewing and letting my brain zone out.  The reason I said in the beginning that, of all the things I should have or could have been doing, this was definitely not it, is because this is not on my list....I just in the matter of minutes, started yet another new quilt....  This is why browsing my photos on my phone, is not always a good thing....  When will I learn....probably never....I just enjoy going with the flow.  It's so calming sewing without any commitments or deadlines.  This is a charity quilt, so I don't feel guilty for starting another quilt....not in the least.....lol.

Take care everyone and don't forget to take some time for yourself.....like I did, last night! LOL!!