Here are some "in progress" pics of the Spring quilt I am making.

I had to add the Irish Chain/9 patch blocks to make it a king size. I did not have enough and can't get more of the tea cup fabric. Improvisation seems to be my middle name!

I don't know why but the colors in these pics is awful. The yellow is subtle, and the blues that look turquoise are really french blue and royal blue. Oh well!

Here is my EQ drawing of the finished quilt. The borders will be different though.

quiltmaker101 that is going to be a very stunning quilt. Oh i just love your tea cup fabric.... very beautiful colors. Can't wait to see the finished product. :D

incredibly beautiful fabric, lovely quilt. looks like spring to me :D :D :D

I think the color choices are SUPER.. Can't wait to see the finished product!

FASCINATING!!! i love that pattern. is it my imagination or did you change the prairie star just a bit in the corners? it seems different to the drawing. design on the fly. you have great talent. :P :P :P

Thanks Patrice and all!

No, that is the real Prairie Star. Couldn't find exact same in my EQ5 blocks, so I did the closest, just to figure placement and colors.

That is going to be a GORGEOUS quilt!! Please make sure to post photos when you are done ~ I can hardly wait to see it! :)

Oh my, this is going to be beautiful! :) I love the colors you chose. :)

Ditto everyone else!

Very pretty........can't wait to see the finished quilt.

Wendy - those blocks look great and I can't wait to see the finished top! I love the blue fabrics. One of them seems to just jump right off the page; gorgeous!
~Tiffany

I think of all the combination of colors a quilter could use, blue and yellow are my absolute favorite! That is going to be one beautiful quilt :!: :thumbup:

I was looking at the prairie star the other day, it is such a pretty block.

Pretty colors, going to be a beautiful quilt :D :D :D :D

I love your quilt design, and your fabric, and your blocks...heck....I just love the whole thing! Can't wait to see the finished product!

Very, very pretty!! I do so love yellows and blues together!! It be so dadgumperty :wink: :thumbup:

Very pretty! Can't wait to see the blocks all together! I do the same thing with my Quilt Design Wizard program. I find a layout that I want and then pick up similar blocks. Then I pick approximate fabric colors and/or patterns and you can get a pretty good idea of how things will go together. My problem is that if I want to make a twin size quilt by the time I get done "designing" it is KING size!! :D If anyone is interested in a design program and, like me, don't want to invest a lot of money this one is only about $29 and an awful lot of fun for the money!!

"Improvisation seems to be my middle name!"

And what a fine name it is!

I haven't used the Design Wizard. It sounds less expensive than my EQ5, which was $100 and was a birthday present to myself 2 years ago. Can you download free stash upgrades (4 times a year) like with EQ? I like that feature. Moda, Hoffman, etc. All there to choose from. I have a real good selection to play with now. That is the thing that keeps me interested in staying with EQ. Of course there may come a day when I have to buy the upgraded version!

Quiltmaker: Each month they have a new project. You gets so many blocks (1-4 so far) and so many fabrics. You can download the projects and then enter the fabrics or blocks that you want into a "Favorites" file. It's not as extensive as the QE5or6 but for the money you can't beat it. It has a lot of features you can use but I haven't really gotten into all of them. I just designed another quilt by manipulating the layouts and colors to get an idea of how it will look. I just used similar fabric colors and patterns. You can also print out the design, Specifics, and rotory, templete or foundation piecing instructions. It will give you the amount of each fabric and the completed size of the quilt you are designing. It is a great tool for me since I don't need too many toys to play with. :lol:

I finished the binding today! The back is a faded blue 108" wide print of hot air balloons.

Again, there is no electric blue in this quilt, it is French blue, but for some reason the color looks weird, taken inside or outside, with or without lights.

It is a King Size. I combined two patterns and added the striped, mitered border.

One word.......WOW!!!

That is just georgous!!!!!!!!! What is the pattern?

Spectacular!

Wooo-eeee!

Love all the blues and yellow :D :D :D So pretty, I can't wait to see the finished quilt :D :D :D

The quilt is so beautiful, how did I miss that you posted the pictures of it finished???? You did a marvelous job, MAKE MORE :D :D :D

Color makes such a difference in a quilt! Yours are just beautiful! This is going to be a honking gorgeous quilt when you're done!

Guess I should have read all the way to the end before I posted. Your finished quilt is a stunner! Well done!

Love yellow and blue and the pattern is a WOW. Great quilt.

That is ....well, I'm speechless (hard to do to me)! Hope you don't mind that I am downloading your pic to keep for inspiration!

http://mccallsquilting.com/curiss/1206_prairiestar_promise

Here is a link to the McCall's Quilting pattern I used for the basis. This quilt needed to be a king size, and I did not have any more of the yellow teacup focus fabric left, so to stretch it to a king, I added the 9 patch blocks and arranged all 3 different blocks into a symmetrical pattern. I used EQ5 for the planning, as you can see on page 1 here.

I had made up the Snowball blocks for a different quilt when I saw the Prairie Star Promise in my McCalls issue and they were the same size requirement!

When my friend Laura said she wanted a blue and yellow quilt, and knowing she loves tea and teacups, I told her I had just the quilt in mind!

Just beautiful - I love the colors and the striped border is perfect !!!

That is simply beautiful....lost for words :D :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Beatiful! :thumbup: Very clever adding the 9 patch block to make it bigger, Love the chain effect it adds. I never would have thought of that I always add more rows or borders(boring :roll: )

A spectacular finish! It was fun watching from your design phase to the finished beauty. Impressive work!

Did your friend jump for joy when she received her quilt???? :D :D :D

some day I will make a yellow and blue quilt, the colors are so nice together