Design wall Monday 7/4/2011

Happy Independence day for those of us in the USA.  I had a delightful time yesterday out at my son’s with the huge amount of family and friends, as well as a side trip to have supper with DH’s train friends. A wonderful day!

This is my design wall today. These are happy blocks for my BFF’s DIL’s quilt. Ginny came over to cut out the “pictures” from the fabrics she collected that she wants in the quilt – for example, the clarinet from the instrument fabric. Then I build it into a block. At first I was just going to border them all with the straight border, but that was boring, so I had to fuss with them a bit. It isn’t possible for me to make a quilt without at least one star in it. There is a LeMoyne stack and whack star waiting for a small border to put in here as well as the Sawtooth stars. I’ll probably manage a few 54-40 or Fight type stars as well.

Enjoy more design walls over at Judy’s blog.

Happy Quilting,

Becky

Comments

Linda said…
Yeah Becky!! Glad to have you back blogging again. I've missed you. hehe ...On the same note it was wonderful getting the 'gals' together at your house yesterday. What fun we have.
Quilty Hugs, Linda
July 5, 2011 at 10:15 PM
Bonnie said…
Your stars make this a much more interesting quilt. I like what you have done so far. Looks good.
July 6, 2011 at 10:23 AM
home painting said…
Cool designs. Thanks for sharing! Keep posting!
July 13, 2011 at 8:25 PM
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