Quilt Block, Week 4

I finished the block for Week 4 in the quilt along. I love these pinks.

I'm pretty happy with the way this one came out. I tried to be really accurate with cutting and sewing

I made some more of the setting blocks and laid out what I have finished. Looking good (if I do say so myself).

Quilt Along Blocks

I'm doing the Quilt Along that Crazy Mom Quilts is hosting. I'm actually all caught up! I've already shown you the fabric that I'm using. So, here are the blocks.

Of course, my points aren't perfect. *sigh* I aspire to perfect points, but don't always rarely achieve them. I wish I knew the secret. I'm sure there must be one. I swear I've done everything that I can to get them, and it still seems like it's hit or miss as to whether they come out or not.

Love the fabric in this block.

I was looking at some of the other quilters doing the quilt along, and Amy posted a website for making Flying Geese from squares. Thank you Amy! I like making triangles from squares much better than cutting triangles and trying to sew them. I can hardly wait to try it.

Here I've laid them out with the setting blocks. I think this is going to be a great looking quilt.

I've done more setting blocks and I'm going to get started on this weeks blocks, so hopefully I'll have more pictures of soon.

Finished Another Top

I finished piecing my orange and pink quilt! Hooray! Here's what it looks like:

I'm really happy with the way it came out. It's so bright and pretty. Almost all of the seams and corners match and look great. I finally figured out that if I move my sewing needle one click to the right, I can get much more true 1/4 inch seams.

After I layed the quilt out, I used post it labels to make sure that I sewed the blocks up in the SAME way that I had it layed out. Wow! I can't believe how much easier that made it. And in the beginning, I was really glad - because something had happened to my brain and was sewing the blocks together wrong. I can't tell you how many seams I ripped before I got in the groove of what I was supposed to be doing.

I keep thinking that I should name this quilt, but the reality is that I haven't ever named my quilts. I'm not sure if it's something I should start, or not. However, it is rather boring calling it the pink and orange quilt. Something to ponder.

Here's another, close up shot of some blocks:

Now, I'm determined to finish this quilt. I got some great fabric at JoAnn's that has both pink and orange in it for the backing.

First, however, I'm going to get caught up on the Quilt Along. I finally got my Kona Snow in, so I'm ready to go!

Insanity

I signed up to do the quilt along that Crazy Mom Quilts is doing (I LOVE her quilts). No, that's not the insane part.

I found some fabric that I bought at JoAnn's - because I loved it. Then, while searching for some of my Amy Butler fabric (which I have yet to find), I came across some Moda Summer in the City fabric that I bought last year, and realized that the the fabric from JoAnn's would be PERFECT as the setting blocks for the Crazy Mom quilt along, while using some of the Moda Summer in the City fabric for the blocks!

The JoAnn's fabric (setting blocks) is in the center, the other fabric is the Moda. This picture doesn't really do it justice - this fabric is lucious. Now, I'm not sure the fabric has really properly aged enough to use, but I'm going to cut into it anyway. I figure I won't be using much of each fabric. And no, that's not the insanity either (although it DOES borderline on insanity).

I decided that I was going to use Kaufman Kona Snow for the background fabric. I learned about this fabric from The Happy Zombie - and we all know how wonderful she is! I was pretty sure that I some of that fabric in my stash. I went to JoAnn's, and while I was there I got some Kona White, just to see if I might want to use the White, instead of the Snow. But no, after much debate, I decided to go with the Snow. I went online and ordered a bolt of the Snow. Having that decided, I thought that this morning I would go ahead and make the first block, using the Snow from my stash. However, when I got the fabric that I'm almost positive is the Snow, the color is different from the other fabric that I thought was Snow. The fabric that I used to debate whether I wanted to use White or Snow. So, basically, here's the insanity:

These are the three fabrics that I'm agonizing over, trying to figure out what it is, and what I'm going to use for the background fabric. The top fabric is White (that I know - I just bought it), I'm almost positive the middle is Snow - but what is the bottom fabric? I thought it was Snow - but now I don't think it is. So, do I use the middle fabric, assuming it's the Snow, or wait until I get the Snow in the mail? Are there different dye lots of the Kona fabric - like there are of yarn? Are, in fact, both the middle and the bottom fabric Snow, but with different dye lots? So maybe I should wait until I get the fabric in the mail, so the whole thing will all be the same color?

And, of course, the real question is, does it really matter? As you can see from the picture, the colors that I'm stressing over really aren't that much different.