In the mail on Saturday: blocks from Nancy Breaux in Texas and Susan Nixon in Tennessee.  (Two surnames with x’s and states that start with t’s.) Thank you!

I received double 9’s from Cathy Labath. Thank you! The double 9’s are in a tidy stack. I am contemplating how to set them. No decisions yet. There’s a project on my design wall and a quilt sandwich under the needle. Meanwhile I have audiobook reviews to compose (once I listen to the books), audiobooks to judge (for the annual Audie Awards), and a print-0n-paper book talk to organize (for next Tuesday!).

My husband and I enjoyed lunch today with longtime friend and her husband. DH and the friend went to kindergarten to fifth grade together from 1945 to 1951. Their paths diverged in junior high and they last saw one another at his 25th prep school reunion in 1983. Turns out she and her husband live 35 miles from us….While we were out the mail came and brought blocks from Krista, Naomi, Laurie, and Julianne. Thank you!

I received blocks from Jude Edling and Barbara Stanbro. Thank you! (And Jude included a notecard from Minnesota Quilters, Inc., with a picture of a beautiful Mariner’s Compass medallion quilt.)

Today’s mail brought the first of the nine-in-nine patches.  Thanks, Robin in Mississippi and Wilma in North Carolina.

I’m participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year. The color for January is blue. This month’s Lotto block was the beginning of my design. Most of the 3.5″ nine-patch blocks came from the Block Swappers.  Thus, three online groups came together in the design of this...

It is said that what you do on New Year’s Day you will do every day all year. So I sewed. These are black and white, despite the yellowish cast. What a great block to start the 2015...

Here are the O blocks I made at the end of November. (Note to self: if you send a photo to Sophie for the sneak-peekers’ gallery, be sure to post the photo after the first of the month. Otherwise you will not get the next month’s sneak...

When I saw this sampler quilt on Barbara Brackman’s blog I thought of the MMQAL. Read more about it here: http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2014/11/elbe-herbert-johnsons-sampler.html Nann

These were fun. Here are my nine entries for...

Here are four blocks to donate this month. I hope I got the colorway...

I don’t think I will be able to make more than thse three by the end of the...