In a moment of weakness... I started a new project. On Instagram there was a new sewalong starting up using Dutch chintz fabrics. Susie who goes by fixer_of_old_quilts on Instagram is running a sewalong patterned after antique Dutch quilts. She was offering the pattern for templates to English paper piece the center star. I dove right in!!
It was an adventure to make this center star with each point pieced with a seam down the middle. Then I had to choose a background fabric.
Kyle suggested looking at the other fabrics I planned to use and the choice of this medium blue was much easier.
It was another trick to get all the background pieced stitched in and have the star lay flat. It's been a fun and challenging project so far.
Today I added pieced corners to make this a square with the star on point. From here on it gets rows and rows of more hst's. I'm using some of my Dutch chintz fabrics mixed together with other fabrics from my stash.
I've also been working on my Hospital Sketches applique BOM. The May block was a pineapple block that was a little plain. I decided to redraw a different pineapple block from a book that I have - Red and Green Quilts from the Poos collection by Kay Triplett.
It was fun to experiment a bit :0)
And I finished it in time for the release of the June block. I'm going to make that one with no changes.
I've also been stitching a few of my staraday stars. My tin is almost full and I'm 1/3 of the way to finished - lol! A long term project for sure.
I also want to include a picture of my son at his grade 9 grad. He's off to high school next year. He is a great student and athlete - I think he's going to love high school. He looked so handsome all dressed up :0)
Happy Quilting!
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