A Slight Detour

Here I am going off the trail again...do you see a rabbit?

First I was tempted by some beautiful floss, and inspired by some lovely flower wreaths made by others -- I think I can do this...here's the sketch

I was looking at the July/Aug 2012 of Quiltmaker magazine, and I saw the pillow designed by Kellie Wulfson.  I love her work.  

I thought I would try designing my own version. So with a tip of the hat to Kellie here's how min is shaping up

Hot off the presses ( with a wrench)

I just saw this post in my reader and was mesmerized by this old quilt.  Had to do some sketching... I'm calling it a monkey wrench design.

Ok, I should tell you that the old quilt is.  It is pictured and owned now by Church Avenue quilts.  I realize that I love quilts without sashing a lot.  It is so interesting how the pattern of the block can play off it's neighbour's.

Now what's on the design Wall...

This was a block I first saw on Lori Holt's Bee in My Bonnet, Barn-along  Her's is more flower-like but I was looking through some old quilting mags and saw it again and again - well I had to try it.  So here it is on the old design wall looking spiffy.

The block is 12 1/2 inches square.  The component small sections are all 4 1/2 inches square so it was pretty straight forward.  The corner square in a square is made with one brown square 3 3/8 inches and the corner triangles are the diagonal cut of a 3 inch square.

A new Quilt Along

I saw this new quilt along.  It is so cute.  I especially like the black in the blocks.  I would probably use lighter colours but this is great.  And who doesn't need more accuracy in their quilting....

Here's the link to Michele Foster's great quilt

Maybe I won't be the only one following...huh?

I will leave you with a look out my hotel window in London, UK.