Rainbow Swap Arrived!

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My swap blocks have arrived. They came in the mail yesterday. I was so happy! I have been very sick for a week and they were just the thing to cheer me up. Every one of them is so beautiful and so unique. Thank you to all who participated with me in the swap, and a huge thank you to Jane who organized it all. She also sent 4 lovely coasters. I am not sure yet how I am going to put them into a quilt. I am also doing the Four seasons quilt swap summer block which is a colour block so I think I am going to wait until I get those and try to put it all together. If you want to see an already put together quilt check out Mushyhed. She has done a fantastic job and I love the pink blocks she has added.

Trying Something New!

Well, I got my rainbow blocks done for the swap. Now, I am back to the quilt that has been trying me crazy. It should be easy, and it is and it is not. I think that part of the problem is that the quilt is for me, so I set it aside to work on others. While, it is getting done now, before I work on anything else. Quilt for son, no, bindings for dh and daughter's quilt - no! All this quilt needs is borders.

Since I have this bad habit of putting stuff aside for myself, I have decided to try something new. I was reading another blog who was going to do this and I have decided to try it. It is all about the leaders and enders as Bonnie from Quiltville describes them. Rather than using scraps at the beginning and the end she pieces together small blocks and then uses them to make a quilt. The quilts she has made from them are incredible. I am going to try to do this. I took a mystery quilt evening at my LQS in March and loved the pattern. Part of the cost for the evening was that you got a starter kit of fabric. Now normally, I would have never picked any of these colours for myself. They are more subduded than I am use to, but I fell in love with them. I did not know when I would get to it, because I have 2 baby quilts I need to get finished for August and the quilt for my son. I am going to use the small pieces of the quilt for the leaders and enders. I am eager to find out how much I will be able to get accomplished.

April Showers Bring Many Quilts

When it rains it pours ....

Easter turned out to be a big quilting weekend for me. I got two quilts back from Tammy.

These are sneak peeks of the back. I still have to put the binding on.





I got the 1st block of my rainbow swap done.





I am almost done this quilt. I just need to add on some borders.


I also found out that my sister and her husband just bought a house. I had bought material in January to make her a quilt but I was not sure when I should make it, because I had not yet found anything I liked for my brother. Now I have a reason to give her her one without having one ready for him.






I was also waiting for a family friend to have a baby. Her due date was a week ago. Well, the baby has now been born and it's a girl! That means I get to use this quilt kit a bought a few years ago. Instead of red fabric it came with pink. Happy Quilting!

Rainbow Swap

I am very excited to have joined Jane's Rainbow Swap. It is my first swap and I know it is going to be a lot of fun. I chose the dark green colour as it was the last in group 3. Then I realized how lucky I was because my local quilt shop has green fabric on sale right now. Luckily for me I checked my limited stash first and realized that I had a green that would be perfect. I am not really a fabric collector, I am more of a project collector. I get the fabrics and pattern all together and then they all stand in line while I try to figure out which one should go first. Part of my excitement is that I love the rainbow. A lot of the quilts that I have made for little ones have all the colours of the rainbow. Now I will have one for myself.