Hooked on Quilting

I worked on my Kids Will Be Kids quilt today and this is my first time to do the hourglass block. I found this tutorial on making quick-pieced quarter-square triangles and it was soooooooo easy! I highly recommend any newbies out there to read through this site. I was able to complete all 18 today. The squares are 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 so the quilt should have gone quickly except my other block has borders and I probably should have used a scant 1/4" so I'll be ripping a few out. Sigh. Have I mentioned that every quilter needs, no, deserves, a design wall? Mine is just a makeshift one and just leans against the slanted ceiling and a twin bed because I really don't have a wall that the ceiling is tall enough. I do love having this wonderful room, but those slanted roof walls really get in the way. :) Here's a few blocks on the design board: I also do some work on my other "active projects" but nothing big. Still sitting on the fence about the Foolish Goose Tracks an...

A LQS is closing somewhat near me, so I trekked out there and finally got some stash. I just hope it doesn't sit here forever. I'm not going to pre-wash these fabrics unless I use ones I'm afraid will bleed. So, now that I have about 50 different fabrics (Yikes, spent so much cash!), I feel like I can put together some quilts so I'm going to go through it and see if I can get enough to do the Foolish Goose Tracks from Burning the Midnight Oil Quilts by Heather Finnell. I'll let you know if I can find enough yardage to do it and post them or cross it off the potential to-do list. Why do I need to make every pretty quilt out there? And have so many quilt kits around? Crazy me! Gloria