Yellow Brick Road baby quilt

I've been working on another baby quilt this week, another Yellow Brick road. This one was done with Moda's Bliss fabric, which I think will coordinate nicely with the bedding selected by her parents (yes, a baby girl!). Been piecing the backing using the leftovers from the front, this one is a modified log cabin with varying log widths. Just one more log to add, then baste and quilt.

Texas Tears - week 4 Barbara Brackman's Civil War Quilt

Another not so easy block to cut, although piecing was pretty easy. This is essentially a block worked on a 6 unit grid, which doesn't convert to 8" very precisely. I used EQ to create templates, marked the sewing line and then sewed it. Very similar to a block in Jane Stickle's quilt, done during the Civil War.

Stars for a New Day begun

In 2009, The Quilt Show had a block of the month that I loved, Stars for a New Day, designed by Sue Garmon. I gathered fabric for it (initially from stash, but supplemented), but had too much on my plate to actually start it. But I saved the patterns for it and looked at what other people were doing, and now I am actually starting it!

Mine will be blue and white. The setting triangles were my starting point for fabric color. This is my first feathered star, and I must say that Sue Garmon's instructions made it pretty easy, relatively speaking

Civil War BOW #3 Seven Sisters

Imagine my surprise when I saw the BOW for this week! so far, the BOWs had been pretty simple piecing, no sweat to add to my things to do list. This week was not so simple, seven tiny-ish stars to applique. It is done.

Civil War North Star - block 2

Barbara Brackman posted her second BOW this morning, and I made it this afternoon. (link to her page on the side)
Once again I used Marti Michell templates, B-8 (4" square for center), B-12 (2" square for corners), B-11 (4" quarter square triangle) and B-13 (2" half square triangle).

Cut one B-8, 4 B-11 (background), 4 B-11 (background) and 8 B-13 (star points) (4 are hiding)

Assemble flying geese units, pressing towards star points
Assemble rows, pressing away from flying Geese unit, then stitch rows together (I pressed away from the center row)
Two done!

Civil War Quilt

Barbara Brackman is starting a new Block of the week on her blog, http://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/ I debated about starting it, my Civil War fabric was hard to get to, then I stumbled across a stack of Mary Koval for Blank Quilting fabric from 2007 - and it spoke to me. I did add the red fabric (an old Elly Sienkiewicz Baltimore Beauties) that I have had for a while. Eventually things work!
This is block #1, Catch Me if you can. The blocks are 8", I used Marti Michell templates B-11 and B-13, assembling it in quarters, then stitching the quarters together, and finally, the block.

Gingko Leaves

My first machine applique in a long time, mostly pretty good. My thread got caught up and caused some puckering in part of it, need to watch for that in the future. This is a pattern from Jill Rixman (www.artfullyapplique.com) that I have had for years. I love the look of Japanese Kamon in applique, also love gingko leaves. Ginko leaves are also popular in the Arts and Crafts movement, which is another favorite of mine.