I had a lot of fun working on my second star block for Kati this weekend. Kati is working on a fabulous star sampler quilt, in grays and yellows. If you asked me a few years ago, before I fell in love with quilting, if I liked gray and yellow together, I probably would have laughed at you. And now? Head over heels. I adore these colors together, especially these golden yellows that Kati sent me to work with. I happen to be in two bees with Kati, so I got to work up two stars of my choosing for her. You saw my first star last week, and here is my second star!


I used the Florida Star block on Quilter's Cache, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I love the way that this block looks when repeated, as demonstrated on the second page of the Quilter's Cache tutorial. I had a dreadful time, though, getting the templates to print at the correct size. It's entirely possible that it was just me, but ultimately, I had to save the templates and then open them in Photoshop to manipulate them to print correctly. After I got through that trouble, though, it was smooth sailing. This block is partly paper-pieced and partly regular pieced, and is fairly quick to put together.

In other news, my munchkin finally seems to be kicking this virus he's been battling for the last week to the curb. I'm relieved that the munchkin is feeling better, so I can be relieved of my nurse duties for the week. He'll be heading to his first art class today, which I'm really excited about for him, since drawing is one of his big passions at the moment. Drawing, and playing dress-up. The latest addition to his dress-up box is a pirate eye patch, which he spent the weekend wearing. Fun stuff! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and have a great Monday!