Spent most of the day yesterday piecing the first charity quilt. I’m on the home stretch and should finish it before today is over!

Are you making things with your blocks yet? I promised I’d post some layout ideas.

Here’s the first: Make three more blocks so that you have 12 and you can make a little quilt this size:

This is a top I pieced while I was making my 10 blocks. I just couldn’t stop! I was liking the messy log cabin thing with warm/dark colors on one side and cool/lights on the other, so I just kept going. This is just 12 10 inch blocks with a 3 inch pieced border. It’ll just hang out in the living room for Brenna to read under.

I’ve been thinking up bed sized ideas too. You could make a simple block stripe, put some solid on either side of it, and you’d have a really modern, simple quilt without making any more blocks.

I’ve got more ideas than I have time right now, but I will post some more next week. In the meantime, post your layout ideas and leave the link in the comments so that we all can see ’em.

I’ve been putting packages together and trying to decide what 9 blocks I get to keep for myself.

The bummer is that there are about 5 sets of blocks I haven’t received. I’m waiting for one in particular from Canada. As soon as it gets here the packages with be all mailed out! I wish I could just send them now, but I’d have to save at least 10 to swap blocks with the Canadian one, so I’m just going to wait until it gets here.

They are all fantastic and look so good together! And, yours will be in your mailbox next week!

These are some of mine. Check flickr for more.