What's Next?

So now that I have finished an old top and it is happily in it's new home . . . .

What's next?

I, of course, I had to try a couple things before I could decide.

I did finish a Triangles Galore Bee Quilt in the fall and gave it to the kid.

Do I want one for me???

Then I have been seeing this Scrappy Trip Around the World Quilt-A-Long

ALL over the web, flicker, blogs, everywhere!

So I tried them both out . . .

I do love a good paper piecing project.

I will always love this block, but . . . 

Maybe not this time around.

So then, I had my hand at the Scrappy Trip Around the World block.

I can see how it is addicting.  Easy piecing, clever un-piecing and voila!

A block in minutes.

I believe this block has won for the next project!

Here is the tutorial and the flickr group.

So off I set on cutting up fabric and laying out colors.

I need to mix in more large prints, I think it gives it an extra wow factor.

I might just have to be a bit of a control freak and make sure a dark

value color is in the center row.  Does this take the scrappiness out?

We'll see as I progress, I can always mix it up as I go along if I don't like it.

I have decided to take a cut of most of my fabrics for this one.

Here is my yellow/orange pile waiting to be cut.

This is going to take a while . . .

But totally worth it!

Here is a Quick Trip Around the World quilt

that I made for my Mom in 2007.

I used the Eleanor Burns book for this one and it uses the same technique

as described in the tutorial above.  

This quilt for my Mom was done in a Kaffe Fasset fabrics.

I also got a tardy Bee Block done this week.

It for Chrissie D in our Metro Mod Modern Bee.

Going in the mail tomorrow!!

This would make a cute scrappy quilt too . . .

Hummmmm.

I know my next finish has to be an old top!

This is actually prodding me on to finish them!

Carrot and stick!!  Hahaha.