the (b)log at kaystarr

no more teachers, no more books! school’s pretty much over (save one paper that i have to - gasp - revise) and you know what that means! summer vacation is officially upon me! while, yes, i’ve technically still got to check in at the nine-to-five, i have mentally begun my three and half month mental reprieve.

so, naturally i’ve got ‘project ideas’ planned for days! first up, the three baby quilts i volunteered to make/organize/oversee. there are a gaggle of four lovely pregnant teachers at school that my co-workers and i are plotting to make quilts for. two will be crochet/knit sampler afghans and the other two will be patchwork quilts. i’m going to make one of the patchworks - i bought the fun ‘monkeyin around’ fabric months ago from fatquartershop.com. now i get to dive in and quilt. looking for inspiration to work with the 4″ charm packs and jelly rolls i have, i found these four fun stripped/squared examples. while my patches are turning out to be over simplified log cabin-esque squares, i really liked all the color/direction/gradation action happening in the examples below…