Jamestown Landing in progress

 Bonnie Hunter has been a favorite quilt designer of mine for years now.  Every year I try to do one of her designs. They are challenging for me, and it's always interesting to give it my own twist.

For a number of years I've been saving blue and white half-square triangles.  I've also been saving selvage edges from fabric.  Instead of string piecing the neutral blocks on Jamestown Landing, I used neutral selvages.  It certainly gives a similar look, and it was a great way to use up the selvages that I didn't use in my basket weave quilt.  That being said, I'm all done saving selvages!  Three quilts is enough.  I don't think the method of topstitching them together is strong enough to withstand much practical use.  But, I did enjoy giving it a try.

Here's a quick snapshot of Jamestown Landing before I started quilting it up.  The quilting was finished last weekend, and trimming and binding are up next.  I hope to share the finished quilt with you soon.

Valentine Mystery

 Here's a sweet little quilt that seemed to take forever to get the binding handwork done.  I can hardly remember when it was started.  It was the Valentine Mystery sew-along from last February by Kathleen Tracy.  This little cutie finished at 15 1/2" square.  Usually these small quilts are part of my sit-and-wait handwork when I go to doctor appointments, but lately I barely get in three stitches before my name is called.