Reverse Sawtooth Star

In my continued effort to make quilts from my stash this year, I pulled out my bin of Anna Maria Horner fabrics. I've made several quilts from her lines and as always there were leftover scraps, too precious to toss. For this quilt I chose some of my very favorite fabrics from multiple lines, some of which were fairly small pieces, and ended up with a quilt that I can't stop looking at!

The pattern idea came from blogger, Suzy Quilts. She has a full tutorial for this Reverse Sawtooth using an 8" square star. I decided with the bigger prints to go up to 12" {and fewer blocks to make}. The design is the same, just the block size is different.

For the background I chose Little Ruby dots in gray by Bonnie and Camille for Moda. I find that softer grays and creams really soften the saturated colors of Anna Maria Horner's fabrics. Love how this gray compliments the colors.

I quilted this one in organic "straight" lines using my walking foot. It's such an quick way to quilt something and I debated about it as I often feel it's a cop out because it is so easy. But I love the way it looks and doesn't overpower the fabrics or the design.

I raided my stash again for the backing and sewed 3 larger pieces of AMH prints together to get the size I needed.

To bind I chose Cotton + Steel Netorious in black.

I've been doing some thinking about blogs and blogging, heard and read some observations about them recently, and wondering if anyone's reading them any more. Watching my granddaughters practice doing cartwheels during the Olympics has me thinking even more. I need to put all those thoughts together and I'll share them with you next time.

Are you still reading many blogs and what are you looking for?