Here I am...

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I love reading everyone else’s blog and decided I just have to get in on the action. I keep trying to come up with something exciting for my first post but I’m afraid if we keep waiting for excitement this blog may never get off the ground!

So in lieu of excitement I’ll show you what I’ve been working on lately:

These are 3 blocks I made for a birthday block swap I'm participating in. These are for our hostess Kate who asked for Amish inspired blocks-black or black on black backgrounds with TOT fabrics. she didn't put any restrictions on size or pattern so I had a lot of fun picking out some fun blocks for her.

This one is Squire Smith's Choice from quilterscache.com


This is 12 Triangles-also from quilterscache.com


This one Amish Shoofly. I love shoofly blocks and think they're perfect for an Amish style quilt but I didn't want to just make a shoo fly block for Kate-she's done so much work on this swap I wanted something a little fancier. So I made her 4 and put them together. I think they turned out quite nicely.

Here's two I made for Jeanne-she wanted blocks to make a village. I'd never done building blocks before so this was fun-I had a blast picking out the perfect fabrics for my structures. These two are from quilterscache too-guess you can tell I love Marcia's patterns. Jeanne wanted 9 inch blocks and these finish at 10 but they're paper pieced so I scaled them down when I printed them out.