Back to letters

I've got my the blocks for the center of my quilt assembled - I don't usually make square quilts either but at this point the center is 72 inches square and I'm going to finish it with my pieced letter border that will go around the entire quilt.

I've really gone round and round about the size and shape of this quilt which is silly, I'm going to just let it be the size it wants to be. The blocks I wanted to use are all there and when the borders are right I'll know it.

Less space is better

I'm getting better with the letters - I think part of the problem with Heart was that there was too much space in between the letters. While I'm not using Tonya's detailed *hot to's* for each of the letters, I did read over the introduction for tips.

I also calculated the size of the quilt if I used all the blocks I have here and it's pretty bit (90 x 108). There were extra's sent to me so I'm going to go back and recount how many I have if I just use one from everyone. I'm going to machine quilt this so if I can't manage to get everyone's blocks in making it smaller then I"ll go with the larger version.

A change of *heart*

I think rather than starting a new project - I'm going to finish a project that's been waiting for me to work on since February. After the first anniversary of HeartStrings, I received blocks from members to use in a quilt for myself with the goal of creating a border with free pieced letters.

So today, I pulled out the blocks and started working on the layout and my word border. Since our theme is House, Home, or Pantry my project should qualify since my home is where I do all my HeartStrings work.

I'm going to play too

I finished up my Wonky Trees from the Summer class a couple weeks ago and am looking forward to starting another liberated project.

I travel fairly frequently which I love but I also love coming home. I haven't started sewing yet but my thought is to create a quilt that has my home surrounded by the places I've been traveling in pieced letters.

I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else chooses to work on.