Just a quick post….I am so excited….I had wonderful news this week.
I won Sara Lawson’s of Sew Sweetness quilt design contest for her new fabric line Jungle Ave. The quilt will appear in the new magazine Quilt Now, as well!! I hope you go over and take a look at Sara’s new fabric line and check out Quilt Now.
This past weekend was very productive for me. I managed to quilt and bind the wonky herringbone place mats. The quilting is mostly straight-line quilting at 1/2 inch. I decided to match the binding with the backing fabric. I started hand binding but did switch to machine binding and just top stitched the binding. 
I love how they finished. These have been delivered to a friend for a belated birthday gift – she loved them too!! 
Fabric Choices: Essex Dyed Yarn Linen; Peppered Cottons; Panier De Fleurs Dove, French General. Floral Check Anais Grey by Moda. (also see this post for colors and links for the fabrics)
Final Size: 14 x 18″
Design: Paper piecing Pattern
I am just starting to feel like I have my head above water, which is great. Linking up with Amanda Jean @ Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish it up Friday.
I have been trying to catch-up on some of my Scrap-bee-licious blocks this week, as I owe blocks for April, May and June.
April’s block is this wonderful little star – those squares are 1.5″ and has 42 HSTs.
May’s Blocks are an appliqué block that comprises of vines and leaves (not started yet).
June’s blocks are a lot of flying geese which I am paper piecing. Each segment (two flying geese) is a 3.5″ piece. I am missing one row on this one which I am think of adding some of my own fabrics to.
I am hoping to have all these blocks complete by the weekend!! Linking up with Lee over at Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday (see button on the right).
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