I am on a short vacation from work to close out Spring break with the kids.  They have been enjoying the grandparents thoroughly (I know my Mom is not having any problems with her insomnia tonight).  We spent half the day cleaning up my parents house before we could head back home.  Once we got here, they were happily into their electronics that were left behind to ensure quality time while visiting.  That left me to decide on which project to do….

Hmmm…..

Many choices for sure, and although I have plenty that I should probably tackle first – I decided to knock out Block 3 from the Snapshots Quilt Along, called “Put the Kettle On“.  It was released last weekend and I was trying to tell myself that I don’t have to do all of them … but that just made my OCD kick in a little harder.

It certainly isn’t too late to join in and sew along – even if you just pick and choose the blocks you love.  Click here for a link to the Fat Quarter Shop’s blog for this block and you can get all the information about this project to benefit St Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

Since I’m not using the kit (because, again, I told myself I was going to do this quilt) – I am pulling together bright and happy colors from many different collections.  Therefore, it took as long to decide on fabric as it did on making the block…

I knew I really loved my new additions of colors with this purchase of Fresh Cut by BasicGrey:

So, it didn’t take long for me to select my main fabric for the teapot, then go with accents of the blue and green:

I little bit of Daysail, a bit of Flower Sugar and the Fresh Cut fabrics got all cut out and ready for sewing:

Here is my finished teapot by the light of my Ottlight lamp at midnight:

I’m lovin’ it.  I can’t wait to stage a picture of all three blocks together tomorrow when the sun is shining.

My project tomorrow will be to construct a school house block for the center of my gift quilt.  I don’t have an actual pattern, but it should be easy enough to figure it out with the pictures from Pinterest and some graph paper (I need a particular finished size).

Hope you are looking forward to a spectacular first weekend of Spring coming around the corner.  Have a great Friday!!

Jennifer