I’ve already received wonderful, colorful spokes blocks from Helen, Gail, Nann and Peggy. Thanks! And Peggy, I see you are from Alpine—-I went to high school in Demarest. Small world.

I’d like to donate these blocks this month since I was so lucky last month to win the spokes blocks. Thanks in advance for those blocks. I can hardly wait to see...

I made these for the sneak peak. Another fun...

After some trial-and-error I decided to stick with the white background for all my sampler blocks, rather than doing some as white-on-blue. Here are the subsections I made with the May blocks. It’s coming along…. PS. I have 3 May blocks I didn’t post that are white bars on a blue background. If any of the May winers would like them, respond to this post and I’ll mail them off to...

I had to struggle to make this come out the correct size, but in the end it worked out. I paper-pieced the rays first, and appliquéd the yellow center on pretty easily, but ran into challenges when I tried to reverse-applique the outside border onto the paper-pieced center. For my next block (for my own sampler) I think I will try to make the ray unit first and then appliqué that unit to a 14.5 x 7.5 rectangle. Then I will cut away the back,...

Here are at the 9 blocks I need for the queen-sized quilt. The color’s a bit off, but they’re blue-and-white. I’m waiting until Sophie posts the June block before I make the May blocks for this quilt, because I can’t decide if they should be blue-on-white or white-on-blue. Still having...

I am really liking how this is coming together! Sophie, do you think this quilt could be made as a quilt-as-you-go quilt? Would your design be messed up if these larger segments were to have a 1/2-inch sashing between them in final quilt? It’s just a thought…..I’ve seen several of them lately and was thinking about trying...

Here are 3 of the the 4 Star Chain blocks (February) I made for my sampler quilt. Unfortunately, I spilled a little coffee on the 4th one as I was getting ready to take the photo, and had to do a quick rinse job on it. It’s now out in the sun drying, and I hope will soon be as good as new. So I’ve got 3 of the 5 months done and I just noticed from Sophie’s diagram for the queen size sampler that I have enough to assemble some...

I escaped to my Guild retreat this past weekend and devoted myself to getting started on Sophie’s mod-mod quilt, which I’m making in blue-and-white in the queen size. Fun! My fellow quilters were very interested in what I was making, as they are usually a bit more traditional. I’m excited to be off on this new adventure. Thanks...

I will donate my chances this month....

Since I last posted I’ve received lovely bead-on-a-string blocks from Andi, Karen H., Shelley and Tracy. Thanks everyone! Also Tracy sent me a ticket for a raffle quilt her quilt guild will give away in August. What a great idea. I just looked at it on-line and I’ll be very happy to have that on my bed if I win. (Tracy also promised to mail it to me if I win….how nice is that???)

I got fat envelopes today from Madison, Debra and Caroline. Thanks for the great blocks!