I found the wonderful Nicole from the
Sister’s Choice Quilts blog a month or so ago. I want to make every quilt she makes. I chose to start Beach Cottage from Kim Brackett’s great book
Scrap Basket Surprises, along with Nicole, using April Cornell’s beautiful and summery Nature’s Chorus (just like Nicole, that's where the whole copy cat thing comes in.) (Nicole said she didn’t mind o:) ) Scrap Basket Surprises is one of those books that I think should be on every quilter's bookshelf. I don't think there's one quilt in there I don't want to make!
These blocks were fun and easy to make! Particularly using my Angler quilting tool that I decided is going to live taped to the bed of my sewing machine. I’ve had this doo-dad for years – why has the lightbulb just gone on about what a terrific product this is!!
I finished my 80 blocks this past weekend – whew! Now for the big project of getting all 80 of those blocks up on the design wall and arranging them properly. I’ll take a photo when I get there, for now, here’s what I started with…
