A New Crush

Last night we ventured out through traffic to go to the mall.  I wanted to look for sheets, but the store was out of the size I needed, then we had dinner, and finished with a browse in the book store.  I looked at quilting magazines.  I was browsing through the current (May/June) issue of McCalls when I turned the page and saw this!

Oh my!  I'm in love!!! I'm practically drooling right now.  I want to make this, and I want to start today!  It finishes 56"x56" and the star blocks are 6" but I am considering enlarging it to make a bed quilt.  We need a new quilt for our bed.  Our current one is 12 years old.  Would you like to see it?  You can at Judy Martin's website here -- it is looking much shabbier now.  I had to cut off the binding and apply another (and the first was bias cut, but still frayed.)  The problem is that I LOVE that quilt and haven't found another I loved as much.  Until last night.  I've actually considered remaking the original, but it is a square, and so it is a bit short on our queen-sized bed.  This new quilt I could make a rectangle.

My plan is to make the star blocks 8" and enlarge the border, too.  I already have the plan!  I have the fabric!  I have the excitement!  I don't have the time....    shoot.  My mother-in-law comes tomorrow night for 10 days.  Maybe after.  Of course, I have absolutely no business starting a major project right before moving.  But it has happened before.  Until then, I'm keeping the magazine with me, and stealing peaks as often as I want.

Aloha,

JoAnne