National Quilting Day was Saturday, March 19th – and I wasted no time in taking advantage of it!  I promised my friend Becky of www.SpiritGoat.com some “spring” table toppers for her to use in displaying her lovely soaps and goat’s milk products.

I chose to use Sandy Gervais’ “Lovely” fabric line that I received at quilt market in Houston from Moda (the eighth quarter pack):

As I began designing the table toppers, I decided that I wanted to do three projects that took a beginning quilter from something very simple with strips to putting half-square triangles together.

Here is the first 24″ square table topper I made, using a Rail Fence pattern:

Watch www.BOMquilts.com in the next few weeks for this super-simple beginner’s pattern!