Rewards of Hand Piecing

I love my sewing room - Adam's old bedroom. I've arranged it to suit me, and I have all my quilting stuff organized and easily accessible. I can only think of one drawback and that is that when I am working in the sewing room, the rest of the family is downstairs doing stuff that I want to be in on!

So after about a hundred episodes of NCIS which we dvr'd, I decided I had absolutely wasted too much time! I enjoy hand piecing and hand quilting, so why wasn't I working on something?

Then I remembered a UFO begun 2 or 3, maybe 4, years ago. It is a 2-color quilt of a very pretty deep red and an off-white. There are just 2 blocks--the star and the stepping stone. The reason I'd quit working on it was that I'd run out of one of the neutrals, and then when I found the neutral, I'd forgotten the measurements.

Well, I dove into the bin where it was stored, figured out the dimensions, cut what I needed and set off to my favorite easy chair to piece, watch NCIS with DH, thus enjoyng 2 of my favorite things - quilting and family.

Above is a picture of the blocks that are pieced. It is 7 blocks by 5 blocks at present. I am not using a particular pattern, so I am unsure just how many more I will make. This covers just the end of my queen size bed, so to have a complete top, I am just halfway there. I have considered, however, piecing these togehter to use in a medallion surrounded by borders of pretty quilting. I could add some applique too, perhaps. I will let it tell me what to do. (Quilts do speak, you know.)