back to the bom

I can't believe this is the third block of the month program I'm sharing with you and I still don't have a single one made into a quilt, or even a top!  But anyway, who cares, right?  It's therapy, and all about the process, and so on and so forth.  I enjoy it.  So in that light, it makes perfect sense that I'm doing two at once this time around.

The quilt is called Star Struck, by Terri Staats, and all the blocks are pretty simple, with squares, half-square triangles, flying geese, or quarter-square triangles.  This one is in the peachy-pinky/cream colorway, one that I thought Rebecca would really like.

And for Jessica, the blue batiks.  I'm going to try to put together the background (the lightest fabric in the corners) from my stash, for a scrappy look.  I love the setting, and how it has the secondary stars forming in the sashing, and the blocks set on point.  I'll try to be better about posting pictures of my progress on these BOMs.  I'm hand-piecing again, so we'll see how it compares to when I was using the machine.

Wouldn't it be nice if I could make a couple of the sashing strips as I went along each month so I'd have them all done when the BOM was finished?  And so these blocks would have a halfway decent chance of actually being made into honest-to-goodness, on-the-bed quilts?  Yeah.  That sure would be nice.