The RSC color for April is light and bright blue. With last month's challenge being teal and aqua, my blue scrap bin has had a workout but still seems full of blue. I love the way blues pop on my design wall!
Cynthia Brunz Irish Chain
Strings
I had help on my strings from Julierose at
Julierose Quilts, who took the time to send me instructions on how she makes her beautiful "Ojos" - thank you Julierose!
Now that my "scrap chores" are over for the month I get to concentrate on other projects, such as this Picket Star block from
Preeti's blog. She has generously created an excellent tutorial for it
right here. Preeti has a perfectly lovely and appropriate name for it, but to me it is simply "Preeti's Block". It makes a big 17-1/2 inch block!
I love this block so much that I ordered more of these luscious fabrics by
Jinny Beyer to make several blocks into a quilt.
One of the online stores where I found my fabric was
Lone Star Quiltworks, a store I had visited in December when we took our grandson and his girlfriend to lunch in their college town. I talked my husband into going early so we could check out the store before we met them. It is a quilter's dream - clean and bright and full of beautiful fabrics! For some reason I migrated toward the long arm machines they had set up. I gave the
Hand-Quilter Simply Sixteen a test drive, and oh my goodness! What a fun time I had easily maneuvering that piece of metal around. We asked the friendly demonstrator several questions before I finally asked "how much is it?" Well at $5995.95, and even with a payment plan, I decided maybe I'd just stick with my domestic Janome. And even if we could afford it, we would have to add on a room for it somewhere - lol! But oh it is fun to dream about it, especially when I'm wrestling a quilt through Miss Janome.
I am adding this post to the other fabulous blogs linking up to Cynthia's
Oh Scrap! and Angela's
Scrap Happy Saturday.
