HQAL and My New Project – 24 March 2024 – Post Number 703

Today is Palm Sunday – early Easter this year! Have a blessed day.

Since this is an HQAL update I will start with it. I figured out that I had 2 blocks remaining for In The Garden. I have been working on one of the blocks that only required some flowers to finish it. I did that, but need to applique the 8 circles on the flowers and it will be a finish.

Block 9 is the last block to complete and I will be putting the blocks together and then working on the border. It has been a long road to get to this point, but so happy that I can still applique!!!

Now on to the new project! I started by looking at all the fabric I had left over from my Feathered Star quilt by Marsh McCloskey. I have a lot of her books that I purchased when I first started quilting and 3 books on feathered stars. That led me to my Abigail Blue 1870 fabrics by Mary Koval. Again I was not certain what pattern I would use that would really do this beautiful fabric justice.

Windom had two free patterns on their website using this fabric and I chose the following pattern. I have already started working on it!

Switching now to rulers. In December 2022 I found a new Ruler that works great to make Flying Gees with folded corners. They are made by Antler Quilt Design – check out their patterns and go to Notions to see the Rulers. I tried the smaller one yesterday for making the Stars. I have always used Eleanor Burns rulers for them, but the new rulers help in making Flying Geese with the rectangle and squares. If you are interested, I purchased them from Amazon. There are two sizes – Mini and Larger.

Today I will be making the Flying Geese sections and hopefully get one star made. This evening will be to complete the flower centers on In the Garden block. All in all it is wonderful to be back to blogging and quilting. Thumb works great – now am happy the surgery was done.

Hugs and have a wonderful stitching week!

Nanette

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