Hmm, well here I am.

I purchased the lovely Songbook panel by Stephanie Sliwinski. I decided to take each hymn and make a quilt around it for some lovely ladies in my life. I didn't actually have someone in mind for this hymn at first but I quickly remembered that my soon to be sister-in-law loves pink. Perfect! Now to turn the simple rectangle into a quilt! There is a pillow pattern with the fabric line. I used it as an idea for the center of the quilt. It turned into a medallion quilt of sorts. Next was a simple gray border. And then a border of squares. After a couple more colored borders I did half square triangle blocks. Working with the the amount of fabrics I had from the coordinating fat quarters I had to think. It was a little tricky getting it the size I wanted too. My last pieced border of flying geese is only on the top and bottom.  Adding some final gray border strips got it up to size. I am loving my quilting frame and machine so much!  It just goes so fast! I stuck with simple figure 8 l