Planning for February

 New fabrics and two new quilts are in the plans for February.  These red, white and blues were impulse buys yesterday when shopping for pillow inserts for the grandkids reading pillows.

Remember my bright idea to make a small gingham quilts for my rocking chair on the front porch?  Well I didn't get one made in January so why not make two in February.  I couldn't resist the polka dots and cherry fabric.  The gal at the store was looking at me kinda funny when I pulled the bolts of fabric down and walked about 20 feet away to look at them from afar.  I needed to make sure there was going to be enough contrast to make a gingham quilt.  It's not as much contrast as I wanted but it's the best I could do with the options at Hobby Lobby.  No reason to buy quilt shop fabrics for a quilt that will be seeing all kinds of weather.

The blue fabrics have great contrast.

The plan is to cut and piece both of these quilts at the same time.  It'll be a nice quick project to give me a break from quilting the current UFO.

The Amour de Cerise quilt has been giving me a little trouble.  Let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come.  The problem is more me than it is the quilt.  Finding the right quilting design is taking far longer than I thought.  The one below requires more measuring and marking than I would like so I decided to try something else.

My brain just couldn't get away from the complex designs.  Again this is too much marking and would be time consuming.

Crosshatching is one of my favorite ways to quilt a quilt so let's go with that.  It's fairly easy to mark a quilt for the lines.  However one inch crosshatching is too much and doesn't leave room for imperfections.

I opted to go with two inch crosshatching.  The imperfections are harder to spot.  The arrow below shows the last line made on this quilt top.  The squares on a couple rows will actually be rectangles. It will blend right in and not be noticeable when the quilt is finished.  The quilting in the quilt blocks will be free motion so there's no need to mark anything.  Now to finally get this girl on the quilt frame.

Until next time...

I hope you find time to stitch up something sweet!

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~ Giveaway Winners and More ~

A big thank you to all who enter the pattern giveaway!  Even if you didn't win there's still plenty more fun scheduled for this month.  There will be a free pattern for everyone sometime this week.  And next week is a fabric giveaway!  Oh it's a bundle that would fit in with my color pallet.  So if you love bright happy fabrics be sure to come back for visits in the next couple of weeks.  

The winners for this giveaway were chosen by an online random name generator.

Congratulations to 

Brenda@songbirddesigns

and

MarshaB

Both have been emailed.  Should they not respond within a week, new winners will be chosen.

Here's a sneak peek at Spring Blossoms, the  free pattern that will soon be available.  It's a great little project for using up a few scraps.  I had so much fun putting this one together, the simple design could be used in any decor.  But of course I chose bright and happy.  This is another project that may end up in my new office space.

Since we're on the topic of my office.....A couple of weeks I pulled fabric for a laptop cover.  As it goes all to often around here, I became preoccupied with other projects and the laptop cover is still just an idea.  The office desk is slowly becoming a catch all.  It's time to get things organized before they get out of control.  The white baskets below were purchased at Meijer.  If I can't be organized at least I can hide it in them!  HAHA!   Reverting to my teenage ways!

You all know my fondness for cherries.  Well while at Meijer's this week I spied the most adorable kitchen towels.  Let me tell you, it took all I had to leave them hanging in the store.  Chances are they will eventually end up in my cart.  Unless you go buy them all....please do!  I don't need them!  

#quiltinggiveaway #officeorganizing #freequiltingpattern #podunkpretties #cherrylove

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