A Group of Row Quilts

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Our church has a small quilt group that meets monthly and works on one project a year.  It's a fun little group with quilters of all levels.  There are also some modern quilters and more traditional quilters in the group so it is always fun to see the same project done in different fabrics.

This year, we are doing a row quilt.  Each person in the group will have an opportunity to teach a block and then the group will take what they have learned, make the blocks and complete one row of those blocks.  I am REALLY excited about this project and am trying to decide between these two fabric choices:

I am kind of opting for the first one... I love them both so much and for different reasons... whichever I don't use will definitely be used in another project in the very near future!

The first picture has about half the fabrics from the Sanctuary line and the second picture has about half from Modern Meadow.  The rest of the fabrics are from my stash.

Dish Towel

 Our family is getting larger these days (2 adults, 4 kids and one dog) and our dishwasher gets run daily.  It is filled mostly with sippy cups and bottles that don't ever get completely dry and end up being set on the counter to finish drying.  SO, I've made a couple of these towels to put on the counter.

 I started out by just piecing the top with strips of Amy Butler fabric-- because it's so pretty!

 I placed it upside down on some terry, sewed together, leaving a hold to turn it out again.  Then I flipped it right side out and sewed down the edges again.

I used some terry cloth that I already had on hand, but you can also just use a dish towel or washcloth.