Planning Maine projects

Kim is still here and we have been having fun hanging out in the sewing room for a few days. She leaves today but she got a lot done on her new quilt.
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I decided that I needed to get busy and start looking for a project to take to Maine. I already knew that I wanted to use up some of my blue scraps. I've made a purple and yellow scrap quilt, a quilt using green scraps and one using brown scraps. It's time to tackle the blue drawer.

I got out a stack of books and started searching for a simple pattern.
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This is the quilt that excited me to make and it's made with all squares. It's from Kaffe Fassett book called Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts.
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Here are all of the fabrics that I pulled for this quilt. I will not do any cutting before the trip. I'm just going to get it all packed up and ready.
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I also needed to get a kit or 2 together for my friend Laura. She's coming from the UK and preferred to have a veterans quilt kit since she's not going to pack a project. 

​I decided on 2 kits in this pattern. It's super simple.

I have one kit cut in patriotic scraps and then I found these fabrics in my stash. I bought these YEARS ago and, clearly, have used them in some projects but I've lost interest in them. They are printed ombres that are overprinted with various leaf prints. I thought it might work in the same type of layout. So I cut all of it into 4.5" squares and picked 2 shades of gray for the inner and outer borders. 
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I think it will actually work out OK and will all tie together with some leaf quilting.  Stay tuned for updates on all of these projects in August.

​Now I need to get back to that Goldfinch!