Thursday? Already?

I can't believe it's already Thursday. It's nice having one of the boys home during the week to throw off your schedule (like mines so packed...really). But Caleb had Monday off as a records day and that will throw anybody off.

Wednesday I spent working on my February Sunbonnet Sue. She's so cute heading out to mail her Valentine's Day card in the mailbox, so the two monthly quilts are nearly done. I need a whip-stitch-binding-day because now I have three down there to do.

I did decide on my next project. It's called Heritage Starts published in the latest McCalls Quilting magazine. It's a combination of scraps and stars and should turn out very well. As I always do, I ran a test block on Wednesday night just to see how the measurements worked out and to see if it was going to be a fun quilt to make. I'm in love!!

This quilt is made up of 52 6" blocks and 10 or so 12" blocks. They are various colored stars and I am using (again) some of my scraps left over from previous quilts. The problem about using the ones in my "16-cube" section of fabrics is there isn't enough fabric to make into the pieces needed. Therefore, I'm having to work my way down into my other fabrics, which is okay because I love to delve into new designs.

Yesterday I completed the first column of the quilt which included 10 of the small squares and then did a test run on the first large star. It actually went very well and so then on to more today.

Unlike previous quilt making processes, this quilt is being put together one block at a time rather then the usual "assembly line" method. It's nice to take my time and just savor each block, it's colors and the creation process!!