Tuesday, February 2, 2010

I'M SO WEAK

Ok well I've now committed to another block of the month.  I just can't stand not taking any of the blocks of the month at our little local quilt shop.  Now I've taken on doing 3 different ones along with making 2 for one of the classes.  This one is for another Christmas quilt that I will probably make for one of my grandkids for Christmas I'm not sure yet.  I seen the first block that was being taught and I just thought it was the cutest thing and yes I could do them myself but it is definitely much more fun to sew with other girls and see what they've put together so here is my first block that I thought was really cute.

JANUARY 2010 QUILT RETREAT

This last weekend we had so much fun.  One of my friends has a quilt retreat all of the time and Jan 29th thru the 31st we had one.  There was a total of 5 girls and lots and lots of food.  Tons of fabric 6 inch blocks that we did an exchange it was just fun.  I started cutting my fabric about 3 days before the retreat started and of course Friday I still had 65 pieces to cut, what a job that was.  We had to bring with us 128 lights and 128 med/dark 6" squares and then we went around the table and picked one from each stack.  Now we started to put these together well needless to say not one of us finished it was a major task but really really fun.  We all decided that we would make pinwheels and it is just scrappy.  It was called a Scrappy Friendship Quilt.  I got 6 blocks completed but that isn't even a dent into how many I have to do.  I'm also debated if I want to put sashing in between the blocks.  Well here is a picture of a couple of the blocks that I've done so far.