Once I completed my 2013 BOMquilts.com’s “Pendleton Inspired” quilt, I was itching to get started on my 2014 “He Loves Me, He Loves me Not” block of the month quilt for BOMquilts.com!

As a recap, the fabric we decided on is “He Still Loves Me” designed by Jackie Robinson for Benartex and AbbiMays.com once again is the co-sponsor of this block of the month quilt.  These are the fabrics:

Last week, I finally received the thread for this block of the month quilt, flown in and dropped off on the porch straight from Italy (kind of) as the 2014 block of the month quilt is co-sponsored by Aurifil threads.  These are the threads to be used in this quilt:

Over the weekend, I just could NOT stand it anymore and had to put one of the blocks for the block of the month quilt together.  Call me silly but that once that first block is completed, there is a big collective sigh that the pattern I wrote and the needle position on my sewing machine are in perfect harmony.  Here is the first block for the “He Loves Me, He Loves me Not” 2014 block of the month quilt at BOMquilts.com:

Although this is the easiest block to make for this quilt, I’m loving the colors and the combinations of fabrics for the subsequent blocks.  And then I smile…stroke the block a bit…share the photo a few more times…and then get busy with the other 11 quilt blocks!