Great Expectations

I never for around to sharing this quilt top which is next in the pipeline to be quilted.  Sorry about the poor picture quality.  It's rainy and cool here in my part of Florida.  I always find these type of days especially dismal since moving in Florida.  Something to do with expectations, I think.  Akin to maybe a dessert that just doesn't hit the right amount of sweetness.  I have gotten sidetracked, back to the top.
I had been collecting 2.5 inch squares leftover from a variety of projects (which I am sure are still unfinished also!) when I spotted this beige polka dotted fabric.

It makes for a great background.

Thanks for visiting~

Snippets

I am way behind in doing this,  posting the last block in the Moose on the Porch Quilt Along and

the finished Sampler Quilt.  It's mostly the Fig and Plum fabric line except for some random greens and the sashing which is called Dot.  It went so well I had to use it.  All in all, I like it.
I ended up having more leftovers than I thought and made this,

To change gears, Spoonflower had a free swatch giveaway a few weeks ago.  All you had to do was pick one of the many different designs of fabric and they'd send it to you.  If you are not familiar with them, you design your own fabric and then pay from $18 to $32/ yard to have it printed.  Here's the swatch I chose,

I ordered the quilting weight but was so disappointed with the quality of the fabric.  I am assuming the quality was the same you'd get if you ordered it.  Held up to the light:

Has anyone ordered Spoonflower fabric?
                                          

And lastly some pictures of Amsterdam from our trip last month,

I've never seen so many bikes!  I was a bit envious of it all.  It seems the residents of Amsterdam own 2 to 3 bikes apiece.  I don't think I mentioned it before but like a dunce I neglected to format my camera's memory card before using it and lost about 300 pictures.  It was a heartbreaking discovery.   I have zero of Vienna and only some of each day's pictures.  Really weird how the memory card/camera only captured some images.
I've a few more pictures but I'll have to begin the next post with them as Blogger won't cooperate this morning.  Talk to you later!