I've been thinking about making another quilt but haven't had a really good reason to until recently. My best friend from college, Heather (HEP), is graduating from Iowa Medical School in May, so I thought it would be nice to make her a quilt as a gift. It will be something she can keep forever and whenever she uses it she can remember me and her med school graduation. I've come up with a plan -- it's going to be diagonally tiled 8"x8" blocks made with 4 - 2" strips. I am going to alternate the direction of the strips to give it a sort of weaved look. After I got the design figured out, I searched for the perfect fabric, and I think I found it. It is the collection called "Blush" by Basic Grey for Moda Fabrics. To make my life a little easier, I ordered a jelly roll of this collection. A jelly roll is precut fabric -- 40 - 2 1/2" x 44" strips -- so it will already be the proper width and I'll just have to cut the strips to be 8 1/2" long. Much easier than buying yardage and cutting it up. So the strips will be all variates of the collection. The half squares around the edges and the binding will be the "Sweetie Grunge" fabric (the pink one) and the border and the backing will be the Mike Chocolate Adore fabric. I'm looking forward to getting the fabric so I can get to work on this. HEP is coming to visit in May so I'm hoping to have it done by the time she gets here.
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