Blogger's Quilt Festival!

It was so hard picking a quilt to show because, yet again, the one I want to show is not finished. This is only my second showing in the festival and Amy of Amy's Creative Side should be thanked profusely for coming up with such a wonderful idea! In the Spring festival I wanted to show my X Marks the Spot quilt but it wasn't done so I just squeezed in a picture at the end of the post of where it stood. This time around, I really would love to be finished with my red and white hexagon quilt but it still has quite a bit more work to be done just to be done with the top. So what did I pick?
The second quilt I ever made. The Charm Pack quilt from Freckled Whimsy. I made the top back in February/March of this year but never got around to quilting it. I just recently quilted it a couple of weeks ago and I really love it.

There is a variety of ways the blocks can be put together for this quilt but I liked the assymetry of this combination.

I quilted multiple rows down the solid 'roads' and sets of three lines down the centers of the print fabrics.

Looking at it while I was quilting it, I could tell how much I've learned since putting this piece together. I apparently did not have a lot of concern about lining up points almost a year ago, but this design is very forgiving (one of my favorite things about it!). I used a basic dark brown print for the back but I wanted to incorporate one last block.

I did all straight line quilting as I only recently have started using FMQ. I also thought this design lent itself to straight line stitching a bit more than FMQ.  I used two different fat quarter sets to create the top of this quilt, but I think one of my quilting guild members was right when she said it would make a great quilt for using up scraps.

I think this quilt is going to be my 'curl up on the couch with a good book' quilt!

Linking up to the Blogger's Festival!