The Goldfinch pattern

Yesterday I had hoped to start sewing more little blankets but I had to do a lot of dyeing and by the end of that I was spent. So today I thought I'd show you what in the new pattern that I got after the Mid-Atlantic Quilt show. While at the show there was a new vendor called Legit Kits. I was totally enamoured so I decided to give one a try. They have a lot of different designs and these patterns are in the same price range as the Judy Neimeyer patterns. They come as pattern packs or full kits. I chose a smaller pattern to try out and I got the pattern only because I want to make it with my hand dyed fabrics.

On the right you can see that the pattern is pieced in rectangle shaped blocks.  For example, A1 is one block. The pattern comes with LOTS of paper....let's take a look.
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It comes with a detailed 14 page instruction manual. I need to sit down and read through all of this.
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For this small pattern there are 3 pages of fabric requirements! This explains why the full kits are so expensive. I think the fabric included is Kona cotton. I'll be pulling from my stash and from gradients. For example, I'm going to create the background totally from my Jenny Lake gradient. I think it will work great.  But it's going to be an exercise to match up all of the fabrics for sure!

For every color there's a chart like this to indicate which pieces are cut from each fabric. 48 pages of the kit makes up the "cut guide". I'll probably attach my fabrics to these pages to keep track of them.
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For every block in the quilt there's a piecing guide like this.
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Finally, we're at the good stuff, the foundation papers! There are 40 pages of foundation papers printed on newsprint, just like the Judy Niemeyer patterns.

I think this pattern is going to be fun for me and I'm excited to get started. But there are a few other projects that have to get done first.
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In the evenings I'm continuing on with my crochet projects. After I finished the past shawl I decided to start a new baby quilt. This is some yarn that I found on sale for half off when I was in Maine last summer. It's a very nice and soft yarn and this one is coming along pretty quickly. There's a possibility that I'll need to buy a solid color for the border because I only have 4 balls of the yarn. 
I'll worry about that in a few weeks.

Today I have loads of fabric to wash out and another truckload of mulch to spread. Hopefully I can get something creative done as well.