Playing in the fabric playground

One of my favorite parts of the quilting process is playing with all the fabric. Choosing the colors, making choices and finding the one piece of fabric that's just the right color - the whole kit and caboodle! Here are the finalists for my next pattern called "Honey Bee" - a take on an old favorite the Honey Bee block. I'm really excited to start it, but I have a strict policy that I've put into place after one to many false starts -Sleep on it! I let my fabric sit there and come back to it the next day to see if I still like it. So far, these are keepers! It's a very scrappy quilt and I just love the play of lights and darks here. We'll see how it goes... ;)

I would like to take a second to thank Jan for finding that lost piece of fabric for me. I searched high and low on the internet and came up with zippo - and here she just whipped up a link to TenneseeQuilts.com that has the fabric. Which I promptly ordered. Like blazing fast because of course once you find the fabric you're looking for paranoia sets in and it feels like everyone on the planet is going to be trying to buy that same exact piece of fabric and then it will be gone forever!

Now I can't wait to get it so I can embark on another favorite in the quilting process. Finishing the dang top!