With our recent move and other things keeping me from just sewing for fun, a few weeks ago I just NEEDED to make a quilt and finish it. I did a search on Pinterest and found this quilt

Which lead me to this blog Project 12 Quilts and I am so happy I have found it as there are some really great quilts and I love that Janeen on the blog states ” hope is to “craft for a cause”; to give to others while doing something I love”  Her story is awesome and the blog has tutorials and patterns  for wonderful fresh modern quilts that Janeen encourages people to use for charity quilts.

I picked the Leapfrog pattern as I had a set of fat quarters that I wanted to use with some Kona white.

I will let the pictures and the captions tell the story of how it was made………….

fat quarter bundle was a birthday gift from my friend Judi

Did lots of chain piecing

and after an evening of sewing I had the blocks done

Did some playing on the design wall

One more evening of sewing I had the top done

The following weekend I got it on the frame and decided to use Bubble Wand by Leah Day as the quilting design

made great progress – loved seeing the design on the solid backing fabric

really liked the bubble design on the squares of the top

and after a few hours it was time to display it on our new deck

loving the back

Close up of the quilting

and then one last picture on the table on the deck

it was such a wonderful project to work on. The top sewed up quickly and was just what I needed to get back into the swing of making quilts!

It is now sitting on the sofa and I have about  1/3 of the binding hand sewn and slowly but surely getting done!

I am also sew happy that I found this blog today and I can join into with a fellow quilter in South Africa’s Anything goes Monday linky party – check it out here Stitch By Stitch