Smokey Valley Panel Quilt!!!

 Today I get to share another fun quilt that I tested for my friends at  Riley Blake Designs!!  This is a fun new Boxed Quilt Kit that is perfect for any of you Cowboys and Cowgirls out there :)   It's called the Smokey Valley Panel Quilt  and it is just such a fun way to use a panel and add lots of western piecing to frame it up.   

This Smokey Valley Panel Quilt  uses a panel from the Wild Horses line (and all of these panels are just beautiful!)  and then the piecing of the stars and horseshoes are done with some of the prints from the Cowboys line as well as a lot of great Riley Blake Basics.   And yes, those are a lot of tiny halt square triangles that you are making for the stars.   They were just so fun to stack up all the little piles of perfectly trimmed HST's!!   Do you all like tiny piecing as well??  And how cute are those Horseshoe blocks!!  

Once I had tested the pattern and whipped up the quilt top, it went off to Riley Blake where they quilted it up with this gorgeous curly q design.  Isn't that just so pretty!!  And yes, this picture just happens to show my perfect point in the center of that pinwheel.  But keeping it real, they weren't all this perfect, I just got lucky on this closeup ;)    

And that is my Smokey Valley Panel Quilt all photographed beautifully by the amazing team at Riley Blake!!  I mean, I don't know if they waited for the sky to look "smokey" or if that is a camera trick, but it sure fits the quilt just perfectly either way!!  Doesn't this just make you want to go out and ride horses!!   I actually was born and raised a city girl, but took a Horsemanship Class and I looked forward to each week when I got to go learn about these majestic animals and take them out on trails  :)

So ya, this was a fun one to test for sure!!!  Not quite as fast as most of your panel quilts, but totally worth the extra time for all of that western piecing!!    Do you like working with panels in your quilts??