This and That

Two friends came over on Thursday for a day of sewing. I've learned to select projects that don't involve too much concentration when we get together so I worked on a few different things. First, I made a few of these blocks. I picked up the flannel prints in the center at a guild meeting to make into a charity quilt. I've looked at the assortment and played around with a couple of different ways to make a block and finally came up with this to put into a rail fence pattern. Then, I put together 23 half-square triangles that will go into a quilt for my son who is at Louisiana State University. Although the colors in this picture look a little different, the HSTs are purple and gold. I ended our time together by making flying geese units to put in the border of my Designer Mystery Block of the Month from 2009 (or was it 2010?). I blogged about some of the blocks here and here . Now...