Sunday Fun-day

Christmas music in the air and Tula Pink fabrics on the cutting table...what could be better?! I cut out some wide strips of Tula fabrics and some peppered cottons (from Pepper Cory) and set to work making a St.Louis 16 patch I saw on  the Scribbly Gum blog. The quilt uses fat quarters to make a quick, large lap size quilt, so I decided to go for it. I bought a pack of Tula fabrics on a recent shop visit to Ooltewah, TN, and chose those as well as a bunch of peppered cotton solids from the FQ wall at the  Cleveland shop. It didn't take long to cut the strips and make the blocks. After they were on the design wall, I thought they were a bit too simple and decided to add little triangles to the corners. I can never leave well enough alone!

                                                 

Here are the blocks. I did some more arranging and still wasn't satisfied.

I auditioned some Kaffe millifiore colors and settled on the cornflower blue one for the triangles. 

Subtle, but effective to knock down so much clunkiness in the blocks. Maybe I'll add a fun border, too. 

Everything is seat of the pants and fun. Design play is good for healing, don't you think?

Today, I will finish this top and cut a new one. My mind has already raced ahead and thought of what to do with the leftover FQ pieces...a many trips quilt from Bonnie Hunter's blog. 

Off to the races!!