Quilt Time

What better time to start quilting than the fall?  It is wonderful outside, the weather is amazing and it is full of great inspiration! 



Lily Pads from
Connecting Threads



Next week I should get instructions for the first block in the Winter BOTM club and I'll start making my first quilt.  My fabric has arrived from Connecting Threads and I can't wait to start working with it.  So beautiful.  My inspiration for the colors came from the beautiful hyacinth bean growing up by bird feeder.  Purples, greens, and yellows.


I am excited about this quilt.  It should be pretty difficult for a first quilt, but it will be a wonderful experience and I'll get to try my hand at several different blocks.  I am a little worried that I'll feel overwhelmed, but luckily most of my friends from Seams to Me (our sewing club) are on board.  I'll have lots of help and encouragement.

Also, I am excited about another quilt.  The Turning Twenty Pattern .  Basically, it is twenty fat quarters cut up into four separate blocks and put back together all willy-nilly to make this quilt.  How cool is that?  Plus it looks pretty simple.  AND I have a ton of vintage sheets that are begging to be cut up into FQs for this quilt.  Wouldn't that look amazing?




Image from
http://www.ohfransson.com/



Also, I am still crazy about the Coin Quilts.  I found a great tutorials from Tall Grass Prarie Studio.  I'm thinking lap quilts as Christmas presents.  Although, I like Oh Fransson's idea of a table cloth.  I might be over my head---but right now it sounds like a great idea!

Have you tried this quilt pattern or something similar?  What is your favorite quick and easy quilt pattern?