Perhaps we are making crocuses this month, rather than violets. Here are my nine contributions to the...

I sent the bird blocks to the lucky winners yesterday (Monday).

When Sophie sent the sneak peek last week I got right to work!  I’ve wanted to make this block for a long time. I appreciate the precise cutting...

I think the birds are blue with cold today–single digits here in Chicagoland. Sophie, I am donating...

Haven’t started the blue birds yet, but I did get the strippy blocks mailed to the three winners.

Sophie provides such a dazzling assortment of blocks for us every year.  I have saved many of the patterns because I keep thinking I will make a quilts’-worth of them for myself.  My question to all of you is:  have you used BL patterns again, for an entire quilt?  (Other than the times you’ve won, or for the Mod Mod Sampler last year.)  If so, which ones?

Squares from the Baseball Swap provided a nice variety for this month’s Lotto.  Thanks for yet another great design, Sophie!   (More about the BBS:...

I sent the X Plus blocks to the winners yesterday.

The Twinkler blocks were on the design wall for a week and a half. I knew that if I took them down they’d be consigned to the box o’ blocks, not to see the light of day for months.  I contemplated an on-point setting but rejected it because a.  I wanted to use as many of the 46 blocks as I could, b.  9″ blocks on point = 13.5″ (big!), c.  On-point would require setting triangles. I didn’t have enough of any one...

Deborah’s blocks came from Jerusalem.  I have ’em all now, and I can start to play!  Thanks, everyone.

Three squishies today from Robin in Mississippi, Julianne in California, and Maree in New Zealand. Just one more to come and then I will allow myself to start playing.

Blocks arrived from Marianne in Florida, Rachel in Texas, and Sophie in New Mexico. Thank you, ladies!