Pillows,

You might have noticed the cushions that i sewed for the window at the store:

The pattern for them is found here, they are designed by Art Gallery Fabrics.  thank you, Art Gallery fabrics!

 they were the perfect size to have some fun with free motion quilting

 I had used fat quarters to piece the fronts of the cushions, so I just used the leftover pieces for the backs,

 I think they are really cheerful

I love cushions and pillows, in all different sizes. 
    (the pillow in the center was made by Deirdre using her silkscreened linen fabric)

Fancy Dish!

I fused the petals to the blocks that I needed to complete my large quilt. 

I had been referring to it as my Dresden plate quilt, but had asked if anyone knew of a name for the block.  This morning, amateur sleuth Patti came through and sent me this

So now it is to be referred to as my Fancy Dish quilt.

The green is called jadeite green.

Here are the alternate blocks on my design wall showing what it would look like if the quilt was made up of just this block.   Quite pretty I think. I seem to have miscalculated the number of petals I needed so I have about 40 leftovers

In the mean time I started quilting the central panel of the quilt.

The background behind each Dresden plate /Fancy Dish! is getting a different quilting pattern for each section.

II quilted in the ditch around each of the petals in the diagonal chain

Here we have a woodgrain

This one has connected rectangles

And a good standby, the feathered wreath

I quite like this one it's columns of stripes with little petals off to each side.

This is the edge of the central panel, so I'm just quilting up to near the edge of it. Later I'll add to the quilt and connect up the quilting at that time 

Molly, this is the only way I could imagine quilting a project as big as this one.  This central panel is only three blocks wide but seven or eight blocks high, so it's quite tall but only 39 inches wide.  I will take photos of the process as I go,