Another Vacation Block

I belong to a facebook group by Pat Sloan, the quilter that is doing the block of the month that I just made in my last post.  One of the members, Melinda Pulling-Goodernote, made this beautiful block and posted it in the group last night.  I like it so much that I decided to make it myself.  I especially liked that it is open to paper piecing.

This is the paper pattern that I drew up immediately after seeing it.  I made one of the long middle piece, 2 of the flying geese combo, and 4 of the squares.

I had already started considering making another quilt using the BOM and had picked out these fabrics for it.

The center long piece

All the pieces.

The center and two sides.

And the completed 12.5" block.  I really love the way paper piecing gives you perfect corners.

Thank you so much, Melinda Pulling-Goodernote, for making and sharing this beautiful block.

Pat Sloan's 2015 Vacation Time BOM Block 1

I decided to do my first block of the month quilt.  It is Pat Sloan's 2015 Vacation Time block of the month quilt.  I sort of wanted to use Pat Sloan's fabric but by the time I decided to purchase them, none of the stores online had them all and I didn't want to make a huge string of purchases, so I decided to buy other fabrics locally.  I chose colors based on the nerdlet's current preference for all things that are blue and pink.  I purchased the fabrics today.

This pic is missing two fat quarters that I bought - one blue and one green, and I have already swapped the darkest blue for a slightly lighter blue from my stash.

I already finished the first block.

I cut the fabrics without any regard to direction and I modified her pattern so that all the squares were one piece instead of multiple pieces.  So far I am resisting the temptation to redo the block to turn the pink and the floral so that they are all pointed the same way and to be more particular about my corners.  Right now, I am thinking that I won't redo it but that I will pay more attention during the rest of the blocks.