Lone Star

Making progress on the Lone Star project, had a couple of quiet hours last night and made them count.  The diamonds in the quilt are 4 1/2 inch strips, so it goes fairly quickly.  I figure I'll begin with this larger size lone star and see if I can get it together without too many issues, I know they can be kind of tricky, then I'll try a smaller size.  I really want to make a purple and green lone star, like the old lone star quilt shown in an earlier post.  I can just envision that quilt with a modern purple and green fabrics.  Another quilt to add to my ever growing list!  Here's how it's going....

I'm starting to sweat setting in those squares... I'm great at straight stitching! 

A big shout out thank you to Em Celebrates and Quiltdivajulie for all the press, I really appreciate it.

Happy weekend.

Em Celebrates!

Thank you Em!  What a wonderful surprise to come home after a day at work and find a lovely package waiting for me, and what a package it was, wrapped and everything.  So here's the story, I run home from work at 5 o'clock and have to get my little guy's practice uniform (that he forgot) and run in out to him.  You know how it goes, like a firedrill, run home from work, run around the house to find the darned thing, jump in the car and drive 20 minutes to deliver it.  However, while running around the house I spy a lovely box sitting on the counter... I knew some "little surprise" was on it's way from Em... so I left it sitting there while I delivered the uniform so I could really savor it!  Finally, after thinking about the package and imagining what it could possibly be, I arrive home and find this!  And that's not all, a lovely bookmark as well.  You can visit Em's blog here:  Em Celebrates!

I won the quilt writing a comment about my favorite woman, my mom.  You can see my comment on Em's blog.  Thank you Em, what a wonderful and thoughtful "little" prize.