you may recall, I was contemplating what to do with this:



My sister-in-law's birthday is coming up, and I'd asked her to email me what colours she liked (and hoped against hope that I had them in my stash!) As it turned out, she likes blues and turquoises, and I happened to have a stack of those, so at least I had that.

But when you were last tuned to this bat channel, I didn't even have a pattern in mind! Thankfully, inspiration struck on Saturday night as I lay in bed, so on Sunday morning (after a quick trip to Fabricland to pick up some thread and a new rotary cutter), I began cutting fabric until I had this little pile:



(Backing, varigated thread for the quilting, and a couple of dozen 3 x 3 inch squares in three different patterns and a solid.) And then I laid them out in a "pretend" block:



Well, that seemed to be working! So I sewed it up, cut (roughly) a million more 3 x 3 inch squares and then began piecing a block that was the same, but opposite:



And some more, different orientations of the same block:



So that's where I am so far. On Monday night, I'll finish the top (I hope) and perhaps even batt it up. And then, the quilting. I have no idea how I'm going to quilt this lovely, although I have spirograph patterns in my head. Perhaps I'll find a way to incorporate them. Who knows?

Certainly not me! :)