Currently

I'm working on another Circle Around quilt...

this one from Wee Woodland and Bella Solid in Weathered Teak by Moda and a light tangerine solid that I think is a Benatex fabric called Butternut....my mom picked out these fabrics and they are perfect...very fallish and warm...it's going to be a really great quilt and really big since I loved all the fabrics so much I just couldn't not include any...

I also recently had a birthday and couldn't resist buying this with my birthday money...

fat quarter set of the sweptaway palette of Innocent Crush by Anna Marie Horner...she's a genius...I am so in love with these fabrics....not that I don't love every line she creates....but this is by far my favorite...I bought some yardage too, and I don't think it'll be the last of this line that I buy...I've drawn up a couple quilt ideas, and I'm still mulling over which one is right...

gotta go...game one is on...gotta cheer for the local boys....Go Rangers....put the claw on 'em!!!

On my machine...

is this cute quilt...

yep...more stippling...I was thinking of straight line quilting this one...but...well...yeah...

this quilt was made from an Origins by Basic Grey Jelly Roll and Kona Cotton in Ash....I really loved Origins when I first saw it...and it took me a little while to come up with the right idea to show off what first caught my eye about the line...the range of colors...so I played with it on my design wall for a few days...and then it seemed perfect when I decided to play up a striated spectrum quality....arranging the strips from white to yellow to green to brown to black...and the Ash solid seemed like the perfect neutral border since there's gray in some of the prints...

and in case you wanted to see the whole quilt top...

I snapped this right after I had basted it...and I really like the grays and greens in the quilt and in the background...so I couldn't resist including it...

well I'm off to finish this one up...

I fell in love...

with this mini quilt...

so when I saw the quilt along I was so pumped....and couldn't wait to jump in...

so I started cutting....and cutting...and cutting some more....it's a lot of 2 in squares...

here's my first completed block...

I made one minor change in my blocks...I have the black "stop" squares in the subway lines instead of off to the side like the original mini and the quilt along blocks...

Quiltin Around

Circle Around Plume
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So sorry to have been missing for so long...but my laptop decided to stop functioning....and work has been busy....and I have been doing a lot of sewing and quilting...

so the blogging got neglected....sorry...but now I'm back!!

I finished this quilt a little while ago...and I'm so in love with it....I'm using the cooler weather as an excuse to snuggle under this is every chance I get...

it's Julie's Circle Around quilt pattern...done in Plume by the fabulous Tula Pink with Bella Solid in Snow...and it's binding is Crossweave in Flamingo...

and let me tell you I love how smooth and soft the Crossweave is...and I'll be using it for binding on quilts in the future...

I had a hard time deciding how to quilt this one and decided on meandering outside the circles...gives it just enought crinkle and makes the back super cute with unquilted circles...

did I mention how much I love love love this quilt????