Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New Beginnings~

A New Year. A clean slate... unless, of course you have a few UFO's hanging around like I do. ;-)  But we won't talk about those too much today! :-)

Remember the BOM I did last year for the HGTV quilter's message board?  It is still on my design wall~~ I definitely plan to finish it up soon. :-)


BUT that didn't stop me from starting another this year! ;-) LOL My friend Karen, at Briarside Lane is my partner in the BOM this year (I only had to twist her arm a little bit!)  and we cooked up a beauty.  :-) We are once again going to Quilter's Cache to find the main 12 inch block, and then we are building on them.


Arrowheads block from Quilter's Cache



I am going to use my Civil War stash for my blocks.  Here is my January block~



We will do this every month with different smaller blocks and by the end of the year we will have some beautiful quilt tops! :-)  I'm really excited with our design.  Hop over to Karen's blog to see her January blocks!~ yes! Blocks! She is making two quilts. :-) I am sorely tempted to start another... what am I saying!!?? :-o

I also finished the rows for the three row robins I am doing this year, but I can't show you those. :-/ Sorry!  And I've got the Orca Bay mystery in a million parts and pieces! :-o I need to get back to my machine!

Until next time~


Happy Stitchin'!!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

HA!!! A "little arm twisting?" ;-) Just kidding.
It's going to be fun!!! And now I HAVE to keep up!

Kim said...

Sounds like fun! Love the block and your quilt is beautiful. I'll have to see if I can join in. My plate is pretty full and the new year has barely begun :)

Rosa said...

Love your new block and your quilt top is very nice

Brandie said...

This is a wonderful blocks. I like everything about it. And those red, white and blue blocks are beautiful! Well done!

Brenda said...

Think about it before you start another block!! ;-)
And talk about a million pieces... even when you think your ahead of the game, you look up and realize you haven't even moved yet!!!

Here is to great starts and MANY finishes this year!!!

Anonymous said...

OH....swoon here! Beautiful....I went and looked at your friend Karen's too. How fun to have a friend to prod and keep ya going on this one!! LOL
I just love that star in the middle!!! CUTE!!!

bingo~bonnie said...

ooough what an interesting BOM 1st block you have there... I bet it goes together and creates a secondary pattern? :)

Love your HGTV BOM you have on the design wall!! Great job!

Happy 2012 and Love from Indiana! ~bonnie

Joanne Lendaro said...

You have been sooooooo busy!! And how many projects are you getting into??? LOL!!

bingo~bonnie said...

took some searching to find this - thought you'd want to know I found the Feb block post tagged as simply "BOM" and this one tagged as "2012 BOM" may want to change them to be the same so if later on you are looking for all of them, they'll show up together. :)

trying to help. :)

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