Design Wall Monday

I have a couple of projects up on the wall today. First of all I've gone back to working on my Stepping Stones quilt (another Judy Niemeyer quilt). I have 24 of the 36 blocks pieced. Here they are randomly placed in the approximate position they will be on the finished project.

I'm happy to be working on this again!

As I've mentioned before, I'm working on 12 lap quilts for the Honor Flight program and I hit a bit of a snag tonight with the seventh quilt. Each quilt will be a different pattern and some of them are the result of me just playing around with EQ and liking what I draw. Well, every so often I draw something or mix and match various blocks in EQ and just fall in love with how it looks. Of course that means I stop what I'm doing and get busy on the new project. (I've just erased all doubt as to why I have a bunch of UFOs, haven't I?)

Well, usually it works well and I like my fabric choices along with the overall design. Unfortunately that's not always the case. :-(    Yesterday I began playing around with a Courthouse Steps block variation and liked how it looked but when I started sewing, I began to fall out of love with it. I don't know if it's the fabrics I chose or the layout, but I'm just not loving it! I took a couple of pictures of possible layouts and will make a decision this afternoon as to which one I like best.

Here are the two layouts. What do you think?I'm open to all opinion and thoughts!!

 

Because these quilt must finish 36" x 48", there will be no borders added to this; and I was thinking of a gold binding - the same gold that is in the center of each of the blocks.

Like I said, I'll make a decision later today so that means I can work on my Stepping Stones quilt until then. YEAH!!

If you didn't get a chance to see the quilt that we're raffling off, click here! I'm really excited about this quilt. I loved piecing it and when I gave it to my friend Rachel to quilt it, I just knew that no matter what design she used, I would love it! Click on the picture to get a close up of the quilting. I LOVE it! Thanks Rachel!!

My sewing is going to be a bit limited this week because we're holding our annual fundraiser garage sale this weekend and I have quite a bit of work to do in order to get ready. I'm sure I can sneak a few minutes though. Afterall, sewing/quilting relaxes me!

Check out what other quilters have on their design wall today by going to Judy L's Patchwork Times. Who knows, you might just get inspired!