More Snow-No Quilting

The weatherman was wrong and instead of receiving only one inch of snow we received over 7 inches of snow. Since DH is out of town and DS is at school I am the snow plow. So my quilting time is going to the snow shoveling today. Hopefully, I can quilt tomorrow.

Carpenter's Star Block #3

Today I spent time cutting out squares for Carpenter's Square #3. This quilt will be in shades of green and blue. My thinking today was that if I got another one cut out, then I could sew both top together at once. It always seems that it takes me longer to cut than it does to sew.

Marking Squares

The last few days have been filled with things that did not allow for quilting time. Today is not much better, but I did get time today to mark my squares so I can get back to stitching the next Carpenters Star. I also mailed off the scrap bag for the scrappy block swap. I should receive my bag soon and will have a swap to work on. I also mailed off my scrappy house block swap.

More Squares

The only time I had for quilting today was while I was waiting for DS. I cut 50 more 5" squares. I should certainly have enough now for the Nickel Quilt.

My goal for tomorrow is to go through my projects and put them in order. Perhaps making kits with info of what is there, who it is for, and what is missing.

Nickel Block Quilt

I needed a take along project today so grabbed a bag of scraps, my 5 inch (nickel) square, small cutting board and rotary cutter and as I waited for DS I cut scrap squares. I don't know when I will actually begin sewing the quilt but I now have 125 squares ready to sew together. I am actually thinking about setting them on point, just to give them a bit of a punch.

Quilt Guild Meeting

I was unable to attend my guild meeting yesterday. So I spent my quilting time today working on my 9 patch charity quilt that I will donate to our children's organization. I cut the spacing squares today. Next time I will start sewing the nine patch blocks to the spacers. Cute, but easy.

Scrap Baggie Block Swap

Well the swap has closed and I now know that it will last 7 months. Each month I will receive a new bag of scraps. From those scraps I will add the same amount of my own scraps and then make 2 - 12 1/2" scrappy blocks. At the end of the swap, I will send the hostess half of the blocks that she will swap out and send me the same amount back. By the end of this swap I should have enough blocks to make a quilt. Need to finish stuffing my baggie and mail it off.
This should be so fun! Can hardly wait to get my first bag of scraps!!