Something new!

Last week I went to see my friend Gilly for our monthly scrapbook session. One of the girls brought a friend with her who showed us all this amazing website, purlbee(on my sidebar). So now I am hooked and keep popping over for a browse. They have tons of free patterns and I have already spent many an hour there!
The latest post was about making mini quilts as a full size one can be rather daunting. I have never done a quilt properly; my denim ones were just cobbled together, making it up as I went along, with advice from quilting friends, (some of which I took but most I ignored, being me!)

This was too good an opportunity to miss and as they are doing one a month I decided to make them and then stitch them together to make a full size one! This pattern was called "Courthouse Steps". I started like this...

...and after 4 hours got to this point. It was meant to be peacock colours but Jess got the best colours she could find and actually I think they look ok. I will add to them on other mini quilt pieces so hopefully by the end it will all "go" together and look a bit more "peacocky".

I rather like the skinny piece; wasn't sure about including it but am glad I did now. I just need a couple more strips and this section will be done. It is about 18" square and I think I will stitch all the mini quilts together before I add the wadding and quilting. Well that's assuming I don't lose interest before then!
So for once in my life I have followed instructions on how to do something crafty and done it properly! Who needs classes?