Perhaps one of my very favorite things to do is to drive through the TX Hill Country in the spring and see the Bluebonnets and other wildflowers specific to this area. I took a short trip up there last week with 3 friends. Quilt shop hopping was the goal, but I was not so secret in really wanting to see the flowers. Good memories for me, as many visits to see my parents in the San Antonio area included a drive through the countryside to view these beauties.
Another goal was NOT to buy fabric, but I failed in that one. I picked up some fun fabs for next year's challenge quilt. but pretty much kept a handle on buying stash fabric.
I did, however, gain about a thousand new ideas.
One from my friend, Jenny is this most beautiful Lucy Boston Quilt Block.(photo taken from pinterest) All hand pieced in the English Paper Pieced Method, right up my alley. I'm already pulling fun fabrics from my stash and my eyes are open to more! This one goes on the back burner until I get a little tutoring from Jenny. Stay tuned.

I continue to try to stay focused and get a couple of my lap quilts enlarged to twin size so I can offer them to Sleep in Heavenly Peace before I start anything really new. This one is finished except for quilting and binding. I think Dave approves.
This green crumb quilt was completed in Omaha before I came down, but now I want to enlarge to twin. Instead of taking all the borders off (mainly bc I don't have any more of this green background fabric), I decided to make stripy borders and add those. I'm finding that making these fun and scrapy borders is using a lot of my strips from my 27 pound bin of strips. And that's a good thing. :) Stay tuned for final look.
