A rainy, surprisingly cool Labor Day yesterday.

I spent most of the day starting a new quilt top (darn startitis...). It's the "Woven Ribbons" quilt from M'Liss Rae Hawley's "Fat Quarter Quilts" book. I love the premise of this book (and her second, logically titled "More Fat Quarter Quilts"). You take six fat quarters* and combine them with a "background" fabric, and by rotary cutting and (usually) speed-or-chain piecing, you can turn out a smallish quilt top (lap or crib sized) in a day's to a weekend's work.

I'm using the Fabulous Fifties'-style fabrics I bought a while back at Mary's Quilt Shop in Sherman. I have all the blocks sewn, and some of them put together. I think this evening I'm going to do the rest - I got totally in the "zone" yesterday afternoon and evening, even almost forgot to eat dinner I was so absorbed in it.

The quilt is tentatively called "I like being a girl" which sounds silly, but since the fabric is pink and green and it contains prints of things like poodles and high heeled shoes and purses and silhouettes of fashion models, I think the name is apt.

*For the non-quilters out there: fat quarters are (usually) 18 by 22 inch pieces of fabric. They are very commonly sold in quilt shops - they can be pre-cut (reduces the amount of labor), they are fairly cheap so people tend to load up on them, they are quite useful if you make scrap quilts or fat-quarter quilts, and very, very often the catalogs and the quilt shops offer packets of 6 coordinating fat quarters. The reason I love Ms. Hawley's books is that I have tons of these 6 fat-quarter packets in my stash and was looking for ways to use them - it seems more fun to me to use the packet in a single small quilt than to break up the set and use the fabrics here and there.