I hope today's newsletter sees you well, .

Last week I was in the mood to make a fast, funky quilt and I have a new stack of fat quarters from September's Quilty box to play with. I stacked and "whacked" fat quarters to create them simply to create an awesome set of Fractured Four Patch Blocks.

I love this method of stacking up fabrics and cutting them at crazy angles. It's so easy and it instantly creates interesting effects.

If working with fat quarters is not your think, be sure to check out our other free quilt tutorials and free patterns for download. We have a total of 36 projects you can tackle and master your quilting!

Hot Cast was a unique goddess quilt I made after starting Sinkhole, but before I set that dark quilt on fire.

Similar to Emergence, this was a quilt that needed a bit of time put away before I could pull her out and enjoy the finished effect of the quilt.

The design process for Hot Cast was really fun. I pulled out several books on signs and symbols and my favorite was a book on the history and symbolism of the Free Masons.

I decided to use several iconic symbols from the Masons including the black and white checkerboard floor, stair steps, blazing sunshine, columns, and archway.

For Hot Cast, I returned to the method I’d used to construct Release Your Light.

I hand appliqued the goddess’s body and hair onto a white background, then used paint to add the color to the stairs, columns, and background.

The main goal with this quilt was to learn how to love myself. In the blog posts I shared at the time, I mentioned looking for a “love myself button” and being unable to find it. I also discovered my internal battle with perfectionism with Hot Cast.

It wasn’t perfect and yes, a lot of this insight came many years after finishing Hot Cast.

Every quilt is a journey and this was just another lesson I needed to learn in this process.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day