Orphan Block Not!

I was working with the weathervane block seeing if I could change it to see if it looks more like a flower.  I put a light center square, a circle for the stamens and pistol.  And curved corner blocks on the 4 central blocks.  The green corners I tried to quilt in a leaf pattern.  What do you think?

Well, I think I like the regular pattern better, but it was worth trying - and since I didn't want to have an orphan block, I finished it into a little quiltlet.  I'm thinking if I wanted to make it into a morning glory block, the center would be white not gold and I could use a blue batik for the flower parts and the center square in a white blue batik.  I'll see as a real morning glory has a star with 5 points radiating from the center.

Well, enough - the computer is in the "hot" part of the house and I can't stand it any longer.  Since I had a spell of heat exhaustion in 02, I start to feel nauseous when it's over 100.  This part of the house has no ac, so back to the living room I go.

Stay cool!

UFO #12 is done

This was a disappearing 9 patch that I made with large squares (8").  LOL - I started it when the D9P pattern first came out.  And all the fabric came from my stash.  The back is a cute puppy dog fabric from Robert Kaufman.  I quilted letters in the large squares using the letters in the word - Baby.  Now I need to work on a backing for #13 as it is a set of blocks from 2009.  The last ufo I started in that year. I'm happy to report I haven't started a new ufo in 2010!

Lily Report

Here's our precious baby at 2 1/2 months!  When she's awake, she is so aware. A very good baby.  Mom is going back to work July 12th - Oh, how I wished I lived closer so that I could watch her while she's gone (Deanna is working 24 hrs I think each week).

New Challenge

What do you think of these?   I joined the Inland Valley Modern Quilt Guild and am challenging myself to try to go out of my "comfort range"in fabric selection and see if I can make a Mod Quilt.
These are fat quarters I won online.  Are they modern enough?  I'll put them up on my design wall so I can think about what pattern to use.  And in the meantime, I've ordered a solid and am going to try my hand at it.