Sashing question and Blog hop announcement

First up a sashing question: 

When I originally designed the Vintage Stars pattern I envisioned a white sashing between the blocks, but I started questioning that decision and wondering if there would be too much white in the quilt. 

I tried out all sorts of colors and prints as the sashing and the leading candidates are Kona white and Kona ash.  I have mocked up the quilt top as best I can to get an idea on how each sashing color will make the quilt top look. 

Could I have your help in deciding, which sashing do you prefer, white or ash?  Thanks for your help!

 

Vintage stars "sashed" with Kona ash

 


Vintage Stars "sashed" in Kona white

Secondly a blog hop announcement:

I am going to be taking part in my first blog hop, Wake Up To Kona hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt  going from January 7th-21st.  My day is January 15th.  Here is a little peek into my project and the schedule for the whole hop:

 

January 7

Just Let Me Quilt

Sparrow in Flight

Geta’s Quilting Studio

How ART You

Desertsky Quilts

January 8

Stitchin’ By The Lake

That’s Sew Julie

Living With Purpose

Nini’s Patchwork Blog

Quilts My Way

Jane’s Quilting

Quilt Matters

January 9

Ridge Top Quilts

Marjorie’s Busy Corner

A Stitch In Time

Freemotion by the River

Everyone Deserves A Quilt

January 10

Life in the Scrapatch

Vroomans Quilts

Bumbleberry Stitches

Upstairs Hobby Room

Sew Many Yarns

Easy Patchwork

Beaquilter

January 13

Creatin’ In The Sticks

Meadowbrook

Cathy’s Chatter

Selina Quilts

Sew Fresh Quilts

The Sassy Quilter

January 14

Sew Me Something Good

Sew Peace to Peace

Quilting Prolifically

Linda D. (shown on Just Let Me Quilt)

In The Boon Docks

The Cosmic Quilter

January 15

Thimblemouse& Spouse

Daisy Days

My Addiction to Quilting

Mountain Mist Designs ***That's Me!

Hill Valley Quilter

Malini’s Quilts

Englating

January 16

I Piece 2-Mary

A Reformed Heath’n

From This To That

A Quilting Sheep

CeLynn’s Sunflower Patch

Robin’s Fabric Nest

Quilted Delights

January 17

Why-Knot-Kwilt

Words & Stitches

Marla’s Crafts

Lisa In Port Hope

Transitions for Meee

One English Teacher

Debby Kratovil Quilts

January 20

More Stars in Comanche

Buzzing and Bumbling

Quilting Quietly

Grammie Q’s

The Quilted Cat

The Quilting Queen Online

Lauraluvsloons

Sew Incredibly Crazy

January 21

Just Sew Sue

Pigtales and Quilts

Miss Priss Quilts

Charlottes Creation

Childlike Fascination

Renee Luvs Quilting

Cherry Blossoms

Sew We Quilt

 

I'm linking up to Design Wall Monday @ Patchwork Times, Anything Goes Mondays @ Stitch by Stitch, and WIP @ Freshly Pieced.

 

 

 

Sunday Stash Linkup

I have never linked up to the Sunday Stash Linkup, but in honor of Molli Sparkles taking over I had to link up today.

I must admit to succumbing to a number of Black Friday / Christmas fabric sales and will not show you those.  After the many packages arrived I decided that I would try to be more selective of the fabric that I ordered, buying fabric for a specific project versus just because.  That planned was slightly derailed by Del Ray fabrics having a huge sale with Chicopee and some Shelburne Farms by Denyse Schmidt on sale for $3.50 a yard (yes, you read that correctly $3.50 a yard).  How could I pass that up?  So a little over 13 yards made their way to my house and are shown below.

 

In my defence, these fabrics are not completely "just because" fabrics completely because I do plan on making a queen sized quilt for my bed using the green/blue color way of Chicopee and one of the stumbling blocks was that I only had 10 fat quarters (now I have no excuse not to start :)  Plus, some of the Shelburne Farms is going join some other Shelburne Farms for my subscriber celebration giveaway starting on January 20th.

Happy Stashing!

 

WIP Wednesday and ALYOF January Goal

I want to start the year off on the right foot by posting my work-in-progress and A Lovely Year of Finishes January goal of finishing my Vintage Star quilt (with an added bonus goal of finishing the pattern). 

Update:  You can now find the pattern in my pattern shop:

Digital PDF Vintage Star

Printed Vintage Star

Vintage Star is a new pattern I have been working on for a few months.  I was making good progress in November but the quilt had to take a back seat to all of the xmas quilting that needed to get done in December.  I have the draft of the pattern and 10 of the 16 star blocks finished.  The plan is to sash the star blocks in Kona ash to break up all of the white and then to quilt it in some sort of swirl pattern.

Here's to a quilty new year!