I am on two weeks vacation.  In the past few years we have taken a vacation in the winter and headed to the sunshine.  We won’t be doing that this year.  The Canadian dollar is worth $0.75497 against the US dollar today so we have made a decision to staycation at home this year.  If I am at home, I will have more time to spend in my studio!  Bonus!

The first project I have worked on during this vacation is now finished to a flimsy.   This quilt is called Check Plus and is from a quilt pattern by Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs that appeared in the Nov/Dec 2014 issue of Quilty Magazine.

This was a fun quilt to do. I used a stack of dotty fat quarters that I picked up at a previous year’s Creative Stitches Show. (Maybe two years ago?) I kept the pink fabric from the FQ stack out of the quilt to make this one a more gender neutral palette.

This has now been added to the growing stack of “to be quilted” tops.

Finished flimsy size: 50.5″ x 68.5″.