Waiting for Inspiration...

I'm not quite sure what to do for the placemat quilt swap.

I have the fabric (may add a piece or two).
And, I have a thought.

While I'm waiting for inspiration, I'm working on this...

 

and this...

A Few Things...

First, I want to thank you all so much for your feedback.

I appreciate you so very much!

I guess I'll leave things alone.

I rather like the look of my blog right now.

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I had to (read HAD to) go to 2 quilt shops today.

Not one, but TWO!

It was tough, but I managed.

{grin}

I picked up this fabric...

see the Eiffel Tower?

see the Statue of Liberty?

The fabric is called 'gnomesome traveler'...

it's crackin' me up!

I have a plan.

Don't you worry.

I picked up this dotted fabric for the binding of the Blush baby quilt.

It's gonna look darling!

And, this is the second day that I worked 
on my Postage Stamp quilt.

These are NOT 1" finished squares, though.

Do you think I'm nuts?

Okay, so don't answer that.

I'm cheating...these will be 2" finished squares.

(By the way, those strips in the photo are just laying there.

They're not sewn together...don't want you to think that I cannot match seams!)

There is a lot of sewing and cutting with this quilt.

But, I can already tell that it'll be worth it in the end.

AND, today I cut my first binding on the bias!  

YAY!

It's for my large whirlygig quilt.

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Allegra would have been 12 years old today.

There are no words that would come close
to conveying how I feel...how much I miss her.

Blush...

Here's what I did this afternoon.

I used one charm pack of Blush by basicgrey for Moda, 

and 3 Kona solids.

(milk chocolate, some kind of blue, and pink) 

This is what I came up with.

(click on the image to enlarge)

 

It's a very girly-girl quilt-top, don't you think?

 

I need to get some yardage for a small border and the backing.  

Right now, it's measuring about 36" square.