In spending quite some time pondering ideas for a new quilt for our living room, I think I have the golden ticket! My hubby built me a really nice shelf/quilt hanger and I’ve just been using quilts I have at home for display. None of them are quite right and I’ve known a new project would be under way. But what?
Last year, I was excited to participate in do. Good Stitches {a charity bee}. One particular month, Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson was the quilt designer and I was lucky enough to be a stitcher. I fell madly in love with her mod-mosaic quilt blocks and had fun creating two of my own to contribute.
Do you see where I’m going with this? Oh yessiree, I’m ecstatic to make my very own for our living room display. This will be quite a bit of work, but I’m in no rush. Rachel at Stitched in Color is hosting a Scrap Attack Quilt Along and I think this will be a good opportunity to hold myself accountable for a completion date at the end of March 2012. I’ve never needed help keeping motivated, but it will still be fun to be part of a scrapping community. Speaking of scraps, I’ll be using various fabrics from my 2011 quilt orders and a few other projects. If you’ve ordered a quilt from me, you’ll probably spy your quilt scraps. And since most of my quilt orders are from sweet friends, this will end up being a sentimental quilt.
Luckily, I’ve been hording my scraps, in desired colors, just for this project. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough scraps for a queen size quilt , so I’ll cut into my stash. And since I always order just a little extra to stash away for my personal projects, I should have enough.
There’s a particular piece of artwork above our television that I love. I’m pulling all the same colors from my scraps and their larger counterparts that are stashed away. I’m going matchy-matchy, which I normally hate. However, since it’s a mosaic design with multiple contrasting colors, I think I’ll love it. To be sure before I pour a lot of hard work into a large quilt, I did a sample square. And baby, I think I’m in love.
Love is a funny thing. Sometimes you just know it’s the one. And sometimes you “think” you know it’s the one, but then it’s not. Do you know what I mean? So I turned this mod-mosaic square into a pillow and will hang out with it for a while to be sure. If I keep stealing glimpses from it, then I’ll proceed. If not, I’ll keep searching for another scrappy design. I’m 99.9% sure this is it!
Artwork & Coordinating Fabric

Fabric Scraps from Past Projects
{Larger Stash Pictured Above}

Scrappy – Mod – Mosaic Pillow

Imagine this square as a queen size quilt. Hard work? Absolutely! Worth it? I think, oh yes! And onto some super-duper cuteness, we got a puppy! She’s a golden retriever mix. And do you notice she’s the same color as my flooring? So on purpose! Wow, I did not realize a new puppy would be such hard work. I’m like seriously exhausted! We are house/crate training her. We’ve been very diligent and consistent with her training {thanks to inspiration from Cesar Millan}. Surprisingly, she has learned so much in just 5 short days. Luckily, I am taking her to work with me and hopefully that will lend to a very sociable and obedient dog. At least that’s the plan.
Our girl, Kona ♥

♥ Robin

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