Another Find in the Cleaning

During the Winter Olympics, I like to have a big project. Maybe it's so I won't feel guilty spending so much time in front of the TV.

When I was a teenager, my mom set up quilting frames in the living room, and we tied quilts while watching the down hill skiers or the figure skaters.

Somehow, that need for a sewing project has been embedded deep in my psyche!

But, for this year, what project should it be???

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During the cleaning-out and reorganizing, I came across the quilt blocks I embroidered while I was expecting Elizabeth, 16 years ago. They hadn't been lost; I knew they were there, I just was hesitant to take the next step. My mom has a flower-block quilt, pieced together with blue and yellow, and it's beautiful.

Other than tying some quilts, I've never really done this sort of thing.

How much fabric would I need? How do I start?

Then, recently someone gave me a bunch of craft books. Most of them were then donated to the Book Nook, but I kept a few and I found this section on quilting.

Maybe it caught my eye because I love the colors, or because it would be a perfect way to use my flower quilt blocks,

but it has step-by-step instructions. Just the help that I needed!

We've been Tivo-ing the evening Olympics, so we can skip the commercials (it's amazing! A 5-hour program viewed in under 2 hours). On Monday evening I cut fabric. (A major step forward for me!)

Yesterday, I got a lot of the piecing done (who knew it would take so long?)

By last night, I had enough done to be able to lay out a portion of the quilt and see if the colors would all look good together, and I like it!

The mauve/peach print will be the major color pattern, but I didn't have enough, so I'm incorporating the green/blue print at the corners.

What would a flower garden be without green and blue?