Hi ,

Spring has been playing games with us here in North Carolina. For two days it's sunny, warm, and beautiful weather for hanging up the hammock and grilling on the patio, and the next morning sees a frost and then sleet and even snow. It's been crazy this year. I know I'm looking forward to when the weather stops being bipolar and spring finally arrives for good!

So what have we done this week on the Building Blocks Quilt Along project?

We've gone back to elementary school and played around with cursive words in free motion. Cursive words are probably the easiest thing to free motion quilt because they're already a continuous line design - a series of letters connected together in one unbroken line.

It's also a set of curvy shapes that are already logged into our brains - we know how to write a letter L and how it connects with the O - all those little rules that make cursive writing make sense.

Let's take a look at this week's block:

 Click here to check out this week's video on Cursive Words in a Rail fence Block.

Josh found this one a little more challenging than I expected, however. Let's compare how a beginner did with this week's block.

If you don't want to mess with piecing and you like the above colors, click here to find the Spoonflower cheater cloth fabric Josh is using for his blocks.

I've found comparing my posts and videos with Josh's, who is as much a beginner as you can get, has been very enlightening. If you're just getting started with free motion quilting, you'll definitely want to watch both of our videos and see how differently we worked our respective blocks.

Josh's video on Cursive Words can be found by clicking here.

As always, please remember you can find ALL the posts and videos shared about this project right here.

So that's it for this week! But before we close, I wanted to give you an update about something so many quilters have been asking about lately... a free motion quilting forum! Our web developer has been working on integrating a forum on our website, leahday.com, and we hope to have this ready and fully functional in the near future.

In the meantime, you can join us on our official BBQA facebook group as we share our trials and triumphs--and very pretty pictures! -- with the project. We also have a buzzing off-topic facebook community where quilters all over the world meet and greet each other and share even more beautiful photos of their quilts and other super awesome projects.

So please join the fun! Until next week... let's go quilt,

Leah Day