I had a fairly productive holiday weekend. In addition to putting the finishing touches on the rug, I made a cover for my journal (I've been trying to decide what to do ever since Wool Club!) and started on my first new quilting project for the year. Although I shouldn't have, I committed to a group project through the Primitive Folk Art Yahoo group. We are doing a quilt inspired by this book:
There are eleven quilters participating in the project. We are each supposed to start the project by making an eagle this month. We will then make a swap block for another member of the group each month. I selected the cake basket block as my swap pattern. Each month I will make and sign a cake basket block and send it to one of the other participants. We can make as many other blocks as we want to complete our quilt. This is not a pattern book - we are designing our own projects in the tradition of the Miami Valley qlbums. I started my eagle this weekend and made fairly decent progress. I am using the new "Piecrust" primitive muslin designed by Lisa Bongean as my background. I love the color! I wish I could say the same about the rest of the fabric I am using... it's all quality stuff, but the repro cottons just don't work as well as batiks when needleturning tiny eagle toes and beaks!
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