SPRING Four Season Quilt Swap OPEN!!!

Margaret has opened up the sign-ups for the SPRING Four Season Quilt Swap. . . please click on the badge on my side bar for immediate transfer to her blog with all the directions.

I have been the recipient of two (Fall & Winter) great wall/doll quilts and can't wait to see what Spring holds for me.

Be sure to sign up QUICKLY. . . . space runs out really fast in cyber world --- especially with a great swap from a great hostess.

Enjoy,

Sherry

Four Seasons Quilt Swap

I haven't forgotten to post about this. . . .it's just that the pictures were still in the camera!

Here is the quilt that I received in the WINTER Four Seasons Quilt Swap:



This was made by Stephanie (http://www.artsymomma.blogspot.com/) and my husband LOVES it!! He was so excited about how it came out that he has taken possession of it. . .I hope I get to see it again next winter!

In peace & pieces,

Sherry

Stashbusting report

Well, I just placed an order for 10 yds. of fabric to be used for charity quilt borders. . . so my fabric diet is broken. . . but since this fabric is not for *me* I'm not counting it as a "fall from grace".

I have decided to change the way that I look at my stashbusting attempts. . . instead of trying to calculate the amount of fabric that I have used (which is taking me too much time that could be used to be sewing) I will concentrate on getting projects finished.

To that end, I have some pictures for you:

This is a picture of a Disappearing 9 Patch quilt that I made from fabric from the Charity box @ my guild. I started out with 5" squares & then squared the blocks to
13 1/2" before cutting them down.



These next 2 pictures are boxed 4 patch blocks that were donated to the Charity program; I squared them to 10". . . there were 24 made up; I want to make another 18 from the Charity program fabric so that the quilt will be approximately 53" x 68" -- I figured that would be a good size.



This is a mini Disappearing 9 patch block. . . I started with squares that were
2 1/4". . . I'm thinking these might be a good size for doll quilts. . .will have to see how it turns out.

Hope you all have a wonderful week,

In peace & pieces,

Sherry

Sunday Stash Busting Report

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I missed posting last week. . . .and I don't have much to post for this week. . .however, there has been no new stash arriving in my house since November 1, 2007 so I am doing well on that part of the challenge.

I have seen so many Disappearing Nine Patch quilts being made I figured that I had to try it also. . . I started with 5" squares and here's what I have come up with so far (same three blocks, just set differently):


While I love scrap quilts I thought that I would try to have some control to the blocks. Based on that idea I used the same fabric in the four middle squares. . . to me it seems to give your eye a place to "rest" before going through all the rest of the fabrics.


The third picture shows what the blocks look like smaller. . . I went down to 2 1/4" squares that come out 5" (as evidenced by my rotary cutting mat). . . When I went smaller I decided to use a different fabric in each spot, but to keep them in the same "vein" (WOW, TOT, beige, etc.) to see if I could add more "scrapiness" without getting too "jumbled". . .



The fabrics that I have been using for these blocks come from the charity fabrics for my guild. . . we are going to be sending down 8 quilts to a church group in Tennessee that has set up a disaster relief program, so these pieces will be made in order to replenish the stock of donation quilts that we have on hand (plus it will get the stash out of my basement --- I have enough of my own to deal with)!!! lol

Well, that's about all I have to pass on. . . hopefully next week I will have more to report on.

In peace & pieces,

Sherry