W4M - Those are lovely glasses. Wow! What other designs do ya do?
Yaya - I really like the stars! Your idea about quiltin' stars in it would be darlin'!

Yaya - Thank you posting another quilt for us to look forward to...

Works4me - very pretty glasses!

QuiltE - the flax flowers aren't tiny, they are quite big and bold. Nothing is to scale in Appliqueland, although the leek did come out more or less actual size.

Tonight I am off on an aeroplane to Spain on a quick break with my daughter. I know lots of you have been suffering in the heat. We have had the reverse, nothing but rain since the beginning of June, so I'm hoping for lovely dry sunny weather. Not decided yet whether to take my sewing... There are still three more panels to do once I have finished the flax flowers.

Will report back on the 19th. Happy sewing everyone!

yayaquilts - wonderful work. Star quilting sounds lovely.

dublb - thanks. I do all sorts of designs - roses,butterflies, car logos, chickadeees, dragons. Anything that converts well to black and white. Here is a link to some of my work on Flickr. I had a website but gave it up when the company wanted $190 just to host it for a year. I still had to do all the work!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4669637...7625541830272/

Muv - thanks. So nice you and your daughter can get away. Enjoy and I hope the weather has improved by the time you get home. It has here, finally.

I love all the red white and blue projects you showed. Very nice!

I know what you mean. I don't like big white spaces either or any color for that matter when there is no or little print. Have you considered drawing something on there, using wasable pencil or marker, and then just quilting by following the lines? A simple star sounds like a great idea.

Thanks everyone for the nice compliments!! It has been a fun quilt to make. Started with 5" charms too--very easy and quick (except for a lot of trimming!!). If you aren't familiar with Eleanor Burns' patterns, they are precise. But to get the steps of piecing precise, you usually always have trimming, sometimes a lot, as she has you cut pieces larger, to account for when sewing the seams makes the pieces smaller sometimes. More work, but well worth it in the end for truly exact blocks. I just love how her patterns always come out to the size she says they should be!!

Anna--I may use "Golden Threads" thin (tissue-like paper) to quilt on (comes on a roll). You draw your design or trace a stencil on the paper and you stitch right on the paper. It pulls off really easily and works well. Then I don't have to worry about any marker not coming off, especially on white!!