Summer Quilt block swap - We use similar colors, but each pick a different block

[ginbart]

You go girl, what colors are you using? I wish I could print that off, it's beautiful.

Here is a link to the star I'll be sewing up. This is my favorite site to get quilt blocks from. She's amazing at designing.

http://www.quilterscache.com/H/HuntersStarBlock.html

 

[m.kitchengirl]

Well, I am doing it today. Hitting the fabric store. I spent all of yesterday knitting my sweetie's sleeping socks for his hike. They are done, and I am free of them now. (He was SUCH a nag! I told him, from now on, I will only make things for him as a surprise. Goodness me.) He loves them, and that is good. They were my first socks.

The blocks will be a sanity saver for me, too, while he is gone. I plan to make a ton of stuff & expand the garden over the next 6 months, anything to keep myself busy so I don't lose it while he is away. It is getting close now, he leaves a week from tomorrow.

Gin, glad to see you joined us!

 

[Balefire]

Question................Are we complet or do we wait up to 16? I'm already cutting and like to now, how many sets I need so do

 

[nheimberg]

We are full. 12 blocks is the magic number.

 

[paulsmuffen]

Put me down for the Austin. We need to make 12, is that correct? Thanks, happy sewing ladies.

 

[m.kitchengirl]

Hope you all had a lovely holiday if you celebrate, and weekend if you do not.

I am ready to go full steam ahead on my quilt this week.
Last week I was SO busy at work getting ready for Easter, and SO busy at home getting my sweetie ready for his 6 month hike.
Sent him off yesterday after the family dinner, and now I just need to stay as busy as I can until his return.

I went straight to my sister's house (she & her husband are hairstylists in Boston) and got 2.5 POUNDS of hair cut off (they just had to weigh it, it was such a lot of hair)! I don't look like a chicken farmer anymore. I forgot about "bedhead" with short hair.

So, now I can quilt with impunity, and never need a hair-tie.

 

[Balefire]

Yesterday I cut a lot of squares and sew them together, cut them and ironed them....................and now I need to sort them to put the blocks together..............My colours are purple, orange and yellow...........Hope you all like it

@Kitchengirl................Wow so much hair you lost????????? Amazing. Will you stay with the look or let you grow it long again?
Hope the time will fly by for you

 

[shamblescross]

Congrats on the haircut! Do you have any before and after pics?
and Balefire, it sounds like you have a good start on it! Cutting out the pieces is always the worst for me to get through.

 

[Balefire]

and Balefire, it sounds like you have a good start on it! Cutting out the pieces is always the worst for me to get through.

For me too.................for me too lol

 

[m.kitchengirl]

Quote: Yes, I wanted a drastic change.
In the last year I have moved, changed careers, changed the instrument I play, joined a new band, become a "homesteader", and now am here on my own for 6 months of growth & evolution.
I thought it was time the outside was new, too.
My hair is so short! It is never in my face, and yesterday it was dry before I got to work in the morning! Usually it took until evening for my hair to dry!

Cutting is the hardest part to get through for me. Last time I cut strips & then finished cutting the squares each block I made, and I liked that way a lot better. It made it feel like it took less time because I would cut one set of squares, sew them & feel like, "ooh, that was fast, let's do another!".

Surprise day off today! I know what I will be doing (after I catch up on housework & yard chores, getting ready for his departure the last few weeks a lot has fallen through the cracks.