Design Wall Monday

I've got a couple of things I'm working on this week:

Keeping the Faith Quilt



I'm chain piecing as much as I can, but I had to make some blocks to make sure the fabrics I picked out were going to work. There is some drama associated with making this quilt and church. I can't make a quilt without drama.

These are my fabrics:



This is the quilt from the pattern (Quilts with Style, May/June 2005):



44 more blocks to go!

I also am going to try to work on the New Moon Quilt this week so I can stop thinking about it as I go to sleep every night.

Design Wall Monday: Complicating the Issue

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I have one more row of blocks to sew together. I probably should have pushed to get it done last weekend, but I started working on a top secret quilt project instead in addition to all the other things that the weekend demanded I get done.

M likes this fabric better for the border. I like it, too, and actually thinks it looks better than the other I had picked but there is still some sense of disappointment that I feel because I really liked the Asian butterfly fabric.





It's difficult to tell from the picture and flash effect, but the fabric has a brown background and the flowers are actually much closer in color to the fabrics I used in the blocks. I agree that it is a much better choice.

I wish I had realized we liked this fabric the best because it's at GAQF and their National Quilt Month Sale was this last weekend. 20% is better than nothing. I had sticker shock at the lqs yesterday. I saw some bolts with $11/yd price tags. Ouch!

Design Wall Monday

My goal is to finish piecing the remaining 17 blocks. I think I've got a shot of even finishing the top this week since all the blocks are done except for the last two dark strips of fabric.

This is what the quilt will look like:



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