The beauty of this CCQAL is that you work at your own pace. You can go quickly from step to step, like our own lovely Lynn who has completed her gorgeous quilt with fabulous customized long arm quilting, or you can take your time and make a block or two when the inspiration hits you. Share by linking up on my blog on the first of each month, and/or share HERE anytime on the Flickr page we set up especially for the CCQAL, or share with Lynn or I by emailing your pics to us and we'll publish your progress on our blogs.
What have I been doing? You may recall that I finished my blocks last month, so this month it was all about finding the right fabric for my sashing and 9-patches. I loved the fabrics Lynn used for her latest CC quilt, so with her permission and lots of inspiration, I managed to find what I think are just the right fabrics.
Both fabrics are from the History Repeated 1870-1890 line of fabrics designed by Julie Hendrickson from Windham Fabrics. The colours are truer to the picture above than the pictures below.
Nothing better than cutting, sewing, and listening to the oldies and goodies while the stacks grow...
and grow...
and end up like this!
Then it was time to cut and sew the sashing strips...
And see how they looked framing a block or two...
I liked what I saw so I played around a little more to get a better idea of what my CC might look like down the road...
I am going to love this quilt! This is all I wanted to have done for this month, and after all, it is a laisy daisy no stress QAL, so I stacked everything up and put it away.
Next month I hope to sew the blocks together. As for the borders, I will wait to choose the fabrics after my blocks are together.
Thank you, Lynn, for designing this stunning quilt and helping us so much during the CCQAL. Lynn posts excellent suggestions and advice on Thursdays. To see her completed quilt with her fantastic quilting, click HERE. Lynn tells us there are some extra CC kits still available, similar to the fabrics used in her quilt. You can find them at In Between Stitches HERE as well as the pattern, because it is never too late to start a Country Charmer quilt!
So what have you been doing? Care to share? If so, link up below so we can ooh and aah!
PS. May 1 is also the day for the parade of this month's Schnibble quilts, hostd by Sinta at The Pink Pincushion, and Sherri at A Quilting Life,. and of course, I just had to make one! Carrie Nelson's Hat Trick Schnibble was the pattern chosen for the first month of Vintage Schnibbles, available at Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. (With the addition of pdf file patterns, just a couple of clicks and the pattern was here!) The pattern called for twenty 9-patch blocks. Since I just happened to have twenty orphan blocks on hand, with a few amendments, I was good to go. Here is a peek at the quilt top I finished, but make sure you visit the Schnibble parades at Sinta's and Sherri's blogs on May 1 to see the Hat Trick quilts from around the globe.
Gotta go...heading to New Brunswick in a few minutes to welcome my snowbird mama back home. It must be Spring!
It's a great day for sewing!