Sailing Along Smoothly

The hand work has been temporarily abandoned.  Why?  So that I can work on a sweet little quilt for a soon to be born baby boy.   The Mommy is decorating the nursery in sail boats with the main colors being red white and blue.  When I was told this, I went looking for fabric   I found a fun line at Connecting Threads.  It is called "Smooth Sailing"    I ordered the Mariner's Star design in Silver Lining.
I got some red, blue and gray at the local quilt shop.  I also ordered the 10" square sampler.  I will use some of it in the pieced backing.
I designed a quilt top in Electric Quilt 7.  I also designed my own sailboat block (after looking at several online.)
Here is one of my early drafts:

Of course as I started working on it, I changed a few things.  So here is the finished top.

It is raining here today so I had to do an indoor picture.  It isn't the greatest picture, but you get the idea.
I love the way this came out.  I just have to say Thank you!  to Connecting Threads and to Electric Quilt for such wonderful products.


There is a cool giveaway featuring some Connecting Threads fabric at Hilachas' blog