thank you soooo much!

Thank you all so very much!!

I was shocked!

And it is sooo beautiful!
Honestly,
I'm not sure if it was the hormones or the surprise,
or just the deep heartfelt thankfullness,
but I started to cry when I took it out of the envelope.

quilters truly are the most generous people.

The lil' guy and I both thank you so much.

You've made me feel so blessed to be a part of such a great group of quilters.

thank you.

Kelly

here they are...

My June blocks for Kathy have been done for a bit and on their way to her...

I wasn't so sure about my wonkiness...
"wonk" I've noticed, does not come easily to me...

but I think she likes them, so I'm safe :)

I'm so enjoying the swap process.
It has opened up opportunity for me to really stretch and learn.

I'm excited for the next one!

p.s. no baby yet.
I have 5 days til' my due date.
I'll let you all know when it arrives :)

a thousand apologies

here they are.

My May blocks for Kathleen.

Done and dusted.

In the mail.

LATE...

So sorry....

so what happened to me this month??

why the late blocks from a girl who's turnaround record has been pretty good?

ummm...

well when I received the fabrics and directions, I froze.

I found it confusing.

ummm...yeah.

let's remember I'm 34 weeks pregnant.

I have baby brain, people!

so then I didn't have the right fabric in my stash.

so I had to go to the store.

the fabric store 25 minutes away.

this is not normally an issue.

It's normally a joy...

hmmmmm...

"surely I must have something here..."

nope.

so then I equated purchasing the fabric for the block

to finishing the block.

ummm...

note to self--

purchased fabric=UN finished

so this morning

I decided to let it lag no longer.

45 minutes

2 freezies

and a broken seam ripper later

(don't ask-- I didn't even need it for the block!)

ta da!

two blocks finished.

March and April blocks

I decided yesterday that I was going to sit down and get caught up on my quilting bee blocks. Quite amazing what you accomplish when you put your mind to it!

Blocks for Marty... I'm a huge fan of wonky / improv blocks so these were right up my alley.

I had lots of fun working on these :) I added a Kona solid (I think it's called herb?)... hope that's okay, Marty!

And Jen, I'm so sorry I took so long to get your blocks done! I'd put them on my WIP shelf... and then kind of forgot to make them. Oops! I hope you like them tho :)

The blocks will be in the post tomorrow, ladies :)

-- Audrie

April already?

So how do I know it's April?
I got Marty's fabric in the mail,that's how!


I was a lucky girl and received the beautiful orange-yellow fabric!
which I happened to have some stash to match!


Marty requested simple and off centred.

In my first block I added the lovely centre square from my Make Life stash
--the surrounding fabrics are the ones Marty sent.
finished off by my "signature colour"

also from Marty.

This block, I fear,
is not the "simple block" that Marty requested.

I simply went overboard-- I couldn't help it!

It was the first time I was ever able to just pull stuff from my stash that worked!
and the block just carried me away!

The stripes are from my Amy Butler stash
and the polka dots and flowers were again from Make Life by Sweetwater

I mean look at all those seams!!!
aren't they pretty!
Sorry Marty!

Your fabric was just too good and I was just too weak!
Simple went to the wayside.

Hope you can still use them :)

crazy nine patch

March Blocks for Jen

Totally fun!

Now I'm addicted!

Kim's Blocks... Finally!

I have to apologise for being SO tardy with your blocks Kim! I must admit that it was half procrastination and half hesitation. It was a little scary doing these blocks because I wasn't 100% certain what I was meant to do, and I really didn't want to mess up Kim's gorgeous Rouenneries fabric.

So I finally sat down and immediately felt rather silly for putting it off for so long... these were really fun to work on, and I think I got them right. I hope you like them Kim! :)

- Audrie