K is for...

Here is how my day started...

First thing to do is make triangles with some of those squares..

For this block I need to sew triangles onto the squares to make a square-in-the-square blocks.  Once those are done it is time to sew those little blocks together.  I find a pin inserted through the points on the blocks helps to line them up.  I start with one pin through the back of the bottm block.

Next I poke the pin through the point of the top block as pictured here.

With the pin in place I am ready to sew.  I like toleave my pins sticking out like this as I can hold it as I feed the material under the needle.  When I am near the pin I slow down and stop a stitch before I reach the pin.  Since I  use the needle down position it keeps things nicely lined up when remove the pin before proceeding.

This block went together pretty quilckly.  Do you recognize it?  My pattern used the same  fabric for all of the orange triangles.   I really wanted the star to stand out so I used a darker orange for half of my triangles in order to achieve the look I wanted.

The letter K was added and appliqued using the Double Blanket Stitch on my machine.  And there we have it.  K is for Kansas Star.

Ah, but my work was not done.  Our quilt guild president issued a challenge for us this month.  We had been given an outline for a pumkpin pattern and she suggested that we all do something with it.  Having recently finished my McKenna Ryan top I decided I could design mine with a little fusible applique.  Now I am trying to decide which background fabric to use. Presented here in no particular order are the fabrics I am auditioning. 
 Which do you like best?

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

And Number 7

Taking life a stitch at a time,
Deb