On the Way to Quilt Con - Lucky Her!

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I have been sewing with Benartex Fabrics for 25 years. It all began when I was an editor with Quilt Magazine. Fabric companies sent bundles of their fabric to our office and with the promise of us using it in a featured quilt, they agreed to take out an ad. What a novel idea, huh?

The first quilt is one you've seen here many times, the Royal Star. Based on a vintage block, I converted it from templates to rotary cutting and paper piecing (those pointy points). Yes, she was a cover girl!

Royal Star made with Fossil Ferns fabrics

This was also the cover quilt for my first book. But, let's talk about the QuiltCon block, since QuiltCon is this coming week in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I was given 6 fat quarters of the Superior Solids and asked to make a 12" block. I selected 4 of the 6 with a block from my new calendar in mind.

Four Superior Solids for my block

They insisted they wanted to be photographed with the calendar block before I started to chop them up. Sheesh - how uppity, right? They chose the November 20 Squash Blossom block.

Now, what does that block look like? So very beautiful (and modern looking):

12" Squash Blossom from the front

And let's see it from the back:

Because QuiltCon is all things modern, I chose the straight line quilting and used my trusty walking foot. Yes, I even put a label on this and, as you can see, it's captured in the binding, so NO handwork!

I asked the Benartex rep who's going to QuiltCon to take a photo of this Squash Blossom block at the show. I think this is all going to go to the block's head (does that make her a blockhead?) and she's not going to want to live in my simple home after this. But, she may think she's a Rock Star; I'll have to inform her she's just a Block Star!