Catching up

Bonnie Hunter has a column in Quiltmaker magazine called "Addicted to Scraps". I've been making two of each of these blocks using red/blue/neutrals to go in a sampler quilt that I'm tentatively calling "Patriotic Fervor". Got a little behind but managed to catch up today. Here's a picture of the blocks so far:
Since the blocks are all different sizes, they will be assembied with sashing, pinwheels, flying geese, four patch etc to fit them together. That's going to be the hardest part of the quilt!

Tiny little Bonnie blocks

I'm still making the 3" segments for the mini Bonnie Hunter "Addicted to Scraps" blocks. These are arranged like the pattern where the top left/bottom right are one color and the other two are another, with all the available combinations jumbled around, but there are many possibilities so I'm not joining the segments yet until I see the whole picture. The neutrals will be varied, too. There's cream, pink, blue, aqua, beige, yellow and rose.

I still haven't decided what the final quilt will look like, but aren't the little blocks cute? (They're next to a full size block for comparison.)

The new Quiltmaker issue

I've got some things on my mind today that I needed distraction from thinking about. It's not about me, so I don't feel comfortable talking about the details, but suffice to say I needed a project. The new Quiltmaker had arrived two days ago, and in it I found just the thing.

First, I made the new Bonnie Hunter scrappy blocks for my planned sampler quilt "Patriotic Fervor". This month's block was 9" and is seen in the photo below with the other two blocks, which are 8 1/2" and 6":

The final quilt is going to be one of those mad arrangements of many different size blocks, assembled with pinwheel, flying geese and four patch blocks. I'm looking forward to it. But I need to learn how to use EQ's custom format mode.

Then, last night before I went to bed as I was flipping through the issue I came upon the pattern for "Summer Siesta" on page 16. Well, well, I mused, I have some scraps in those colors. I slipped out of bed and pulled a few pieces from my stash closet. Then this morning I cut out all the pieces. It was completed a couple of hours ago.

The quilt is 48" square. Here's a photo of the quilt top, backing and binding folded on the guest bed:Aren't the colors just scrumptious? This will be a great donation quilt for a little girl.