Building Blocks: Rail Fence, Basic Building Block, Cheaters Drunkard's Path

I've sewed and quilted the Leah Day Building Blocks Lesson Pattern blocks for March, April and May.

It has been a long time since I have worked on this project.  The initial cutting for all the blocks was done in January, so it's pretty easy to pull the material and quilting designs out of the envelopes and then sew, mark and piece.

My seams for the rail fence were a little off, so I had to adapt the marking a little.  I did the marking before watching the videos and realized that I wasn't looking at the big design for each section, I missed seeing that some of the designs flow from the different sections.
Piecing Rails - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/03/9-piece-rail-fence-block.html
Lines - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/03/10-quilt-rail-fence-with-straight-lines.html
Wiggles and Teeth - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/03/11-quilt-rail-fence-with-wiggles-teeth.html
Cursive words - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/03/12-quilt-rail-fence-with-cursive-words.html
Circles and Stairs - http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/03/13-quilt-rail-fence-with-circles-stairs.html

The building block design is genius!  I didn't appreciate the block or the design or the lesson until watching the videos. Leah was very smart to have us do three designs in 4 different scales.  This was the best lesson/exercise ever.  We did micro stippling in 2012 with the whole cloth experiment, but I wasn't really sure if I was doing it at the correct scale or not.  Once I uncover that piece it will be interesting to check.
Piecing Building Block - http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/04/14-piece-modern-building-block.html
Stippling - http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/04/15-quilt-building-block-with-stippling.html
Gridlines - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/04/16-quilt-building-block-with-gridlines.html
Circuit Board - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/04/17-quilt-circuit-board-over-building.html

Building Block - front

Building Block - back

The cheater's drunkard's path was interesting.  I had not made a block this way - sewing and then cutting back to have piece appear. The raw edge will fluff up I guess once the piece is washed.
Piecing - http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/05/18-piece-cheater-drunkards-path-block.html
Lines and Grids - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/05/19-lines-grids-in-drunkards-path.html
Wiggly Lines - http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/05/20-quilt-wiggly-lines-in-drunkards-path.html
Spirals - http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/2014/05/21-spirals-and-echoes-in-drunkards-path.html

Cheater's drunkards - front

Cheater's drunkards - back

I'm getting more confident with the machine again.  Relearning to listen to the sounds as I sew and adjusting accordingly.  I have not broken one needle, and have gone thru two and a half bobbins so far.

I am doing most of the blocks with out rotating - the skills are coming back after this long break from sewing!

Leah has finished the quilt now (there are no anchors on this page so scroll down to see her standing with the project) and it looks really nice, much nicer than I thought it would actually.  I am not going to change my thread color at this stage in the game, but I have discovered again that I really like seeing the thread on the fabric.  My choices for this project have the thread blending in the fabric for part of every block and all the backs.  I should have used black thread to really show off the wonderful designs! and I should have used much lighter colors for the other fabric. It's very hard to mark the designs using the fabric I picked.

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The mug rug I made husband needs to be washed, so I made up a new little coaster for him at the computer - see the cursive Bernie at the top?