Short Line

 

In spite of it being very much spring here, I'm still finding a few minutes here and there to work on the February quilt. This is my fourth block so far and I don't have the slightest urge to pack it up yet. Imagine that.

I've finished all the blocks for Charming Stars and now have to figure out how to do the sashing. I've never done those corner stone things before so it's been interesting. 

I have two more sides of the lighter little house borders to machine quilt and then I have to figure out what to do with the skinny brown edging. This is where things always get ugly for me. The machine likes to eat up those edges and make a mess of them. I do a lot of ripping out but if I don't quilt them they get weirdly puffy after washing. 

Oddly enough, even though I have plenty of sewing work to keep me busy, this week I've been obsessed with the quilt on the right, Scrappy Short Line by Miss Rosie's Quilting Company. I've searched high and low for the pattern with no luck but I did find and buy this one.......

...it's her pattern for the mini version called Slice. I'm not saying I'm starting one anytime soon but it couldn't hurt just to play around with a few scraps now and then, right?