An oldie...

Remember the bird with the Japanese fabrics?  Well....here's the very large center block for the My
Tweets project that was offered last year from Erin Russek.  I had decided not to do the entire quilt, only the large center block.  If you checked the link, you saw how Erin used a lot of very bright colors for her version.  After looking through the photos of all the WIP's, I decided that one of the ones I liked best was done with Japanese fabrics. 

My version of the center block is done mainly with browns, black, greys and dark greens with a few accents of the medium rose and gold.  I think I am going to finish this into a wallhanging by adding a border with a variety of the Japanese fabrics.

Here's (almost) the entire center block:

How Could I Forget?

I actually won something!  Yep, me...who never (well, I can't say that anymore, can I?) never wins.  I was the winner on Erin Russek's 500th blog post give away.  She gave away a Vera Bradey tote with a ton of pockets.  Here is her post:  500th post give away  ...and I won!  Yeah!  This will be a great bag for putting all my quilting tools in, rather than having them all over the place. :))  Thanks so much to Erin for a great give away.

Pretty Birds

Not my usual colors...every now and then I am trying to get away from the color palette I normally choose.  These bright colors are very different from my "norm," that's for sure!  But I did really like the original colors that Erin Russek is using in her latest free Block of the Month design called My Tweets.  I was able to locate a few of the same fabrics for this one.  Those I couldn't find, I tried to match closely.

 This is my Block 1m which I worked on in between all the pieces I have been doing for my Heart's Desire blocks for this month.  Those blocks are coming together very slowly, since I am trying to do all four at once.