A little bump in the road

This is the last picture of Summer Wind that I shared with you.  At first I didn't notice anything amiss, but one day I walked into my sewing room, looked at this top on my design wall and saw it. and then said, "oh no", or something along those lines that I won't repeat today.  I have two like colors touching in border 3 and border 4!!

See that weird design made by that orange square up against that orange triangle?  For the better part of the day I tried to convince myself that it was OK, that I could live with it.

Well it turns out I couldn't, but that's OK, it was an easy fix.  And now look, all my border 5 blocks are on.

Sinta has her stars ready to go too, only one more border to go for both of us! 

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Even More Summer Wind

So the next border on my Summer Wind project is 24 stars and 4 alternate corner blocks.

 I used my Fit to be Geese ruler to make  my flying geese units.

I stuck with my orange, green, and yellow theme for the star blocks, 

but switched back to my pinks for the corner blocks,

which look like this.

Sinta at Pink Pincushion is sewing away on her Summer Wind now too.  We're using the same pattern and same fat quarter bundle, High Street by Lily Ashbury for Moda, but you would never guess it.  Sinta is leaning towards the conservative side and I'm speeding towards the wild side, but I love them both.

I can hardly wait to see these blocks on my quilt.

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A Little More Summer Wind

The 3rd border is the same as the first, scrappy squares, easy peasy.

The 4th border is half square triangles, and you know how I love half square triangles!

I'm going with three colors in this border, yellow, green and orange.  I made sure I pieced an equal number of orange/green, yellow/orange, and yellow/green units.  That way I wouldn't accidentally have  a dominant color.

Again, no problems, everything went together just as it should.

Why does it always seem like the projects you love the most go the fastest?  Maybe it's because you love them so much that you work on them every chance you get.  I'm loving this one.

Just a reminder, the fabric is High Street by Lily Ashbury for Moda and the pattern is Summer Wind by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co.

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More Summer Wind

The first border of Summer Wind is made with just a few scrappy squares.  They went together easily and I didn't have any fabric drama since I could use it all.

The next border is made up of quarter square triangles.  I used my Fit to be Quarter ruler to trim up these blocks.  It makes this job so easy and the blocks squared up perfectly.

I'm going with two pink fabrics for this border.

Does this quilt top make you want to eat Starburst candy?  I've developed a craving for them.

Here's the top with 2 of its 6 borders, so far so good!

Tracey sent me a picture of her Summer Wind made using Martinique by 3 Sisters for Moda.  I loved that line but didn't buy any.  It was fairly different for 3 Sisters,  I think some of the prints had shells on them.

Anyway, Tracey thinks the pattern gets lost in the fabric, I don't think so at all, I love her version.  Tracey even added two more borders to her top, I may do that too.

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Next Up

My next project is Summer Wind.  This is an older pattern by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co, you may have this finished quilt on your bed.  When I googled this quilt I found a lot of them out in blogland.

Do you have friends that share your taste in quilts?  Nicole, at Sister's Choice, has excellent taste in quilts, and it's the same as mine.  We've sewed several quilts together, Toulouse, Belle Meade, Hallowe'en 1904, Red and White Snowball, Autumn in my Garden, and Hill Country Baskets to name a few. After seeing  Nicole's Birdseye and Mocha Trails I made them myself.  I think a project on Nicole's current To Do list is Wild Air, a quilt I finished last year.  And now I'm doing it again, this is Nicole's Summer Wind, made from Astor Manor by Three Sisters.

Someone else who shares my taste in quilt projects is Sinta at Pink Pincushion.  We've never sewed projects together but Sinta rarely finishes a quilt that doesn't go on my To Do list and she is currently working on Coastal Lilies and Evening Bloom, two of my favorite finishes.  Plus there are the Schnibbles we make every month.

For over a year we've been trying to come up with a project to sew together.   Well we finally have one and it was this fabric that got the ball rolling, High Street by Lily Ashbury for Moda.  I saw a fat quarter bundle online and fell in love with the design and colors of this family.  I also thought it looked like the kind of fabric Sinta usually goes for, shabby chic.  So Sinta took one look and said she was in.  Then we needed to decide on a pattern.  We both love Summer Wind, have not made it, and there you go.

The only problem with using a fat quarter bundle for this project is that the large center star requires two like fat quarters.  So Sinta and I decided to pick a fabric for the center and exchange fat quarters so we would have the two matching fat quarters we needed.

Here's the fat quarter I selected and the one Sinta mailed to me.  I think it made this sew along a little more fun, having to exchange fat quarters before we could even get started.

So once the swap was done we were ready to start.  Right off the bat I struggled, I think it was a case of too many pieces of pretty fabric to choose from right from the start.  So here's my first center.

But I decided I didn't like the yellow so I switched to green.

But once I added the corner pieces I decided I didn't like the green.

So I went back to the  yellow.

And changed the corners, but I'm done now and I'm happy, so that's all that matters.

The rest of the rows are scrappy so I don't expect to struggle anymore with my fabric choices.

I'm using the Summer Wind pattern in the A Touch of Rosie Quilts book.  So if you would like to sew along too and have this book, you're set.  If you don't have the pattern Carrie will have a PDF pattern available in her store soon.  I'll let you know when it's available.

Sinta enclosed this note in the package with her fat quarter.

I am ready, set and going!

Sinta is blogging about her progress on Summer Wind today.  We're using the same pattern, the same fabric bundle, and Sinta's center has a very different look.  Be sure to check it out.

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