Swoon 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9!

Here they are.  I'm putting the sashing on now and then will assess the situation on the back.  I've got a queen flat sheet that will be perfect if it's big enough.  If it is, I'm going to sandwich this baby up tonight and start quilting it tomorrow!  Sorry, I didn't take a picture of the layout of them all together yet, and those are little rocks.  It was a bit blustery...

facepalm...

Major fail alert:

I am ONE 4" block short of being free to finish all the swoon blocks....

There is a quilt shop in town that carries lots of Moda so I'm going to be there bright and early Monday morning searching for the red scallop from Ruby by Bonnie and Camille (right?). If they don't have any I just might cry...and then order some as fast as I can.

My plan was to finish all the blocks and sash them by Sunday night so I could sandwich it all up Monday and get started on the quilting...

Not to worry!  It will be OK. 

Swoon 3 and 4

And all of them together so far :)

 dark blue pezzy print with the red from little apples (aneela hoey)

 light blue pezzy print with red dot (don't remember what it's from)

Swoon #2

WIP Wednesday

It's my husband's birthday today!!  We stayed up late last night (he helped someone move last minute and I watched Twin Peaks of course) so I'm letting him sleep in while I wake up with the kids.  I'm not sure yet what we'll do but I know there will be an Ice Cream Cake because that's the only thing I could pry out of him that he wanted...

Anyway, since I watched Twin Peaks mostly alone last night I didn't finish my 2nd Swoon block and am finishing it up this morning. 

And here's the first one. I really need to get in order and get some these done or I'm not going to make it!!! In my opinion trimming the HST's is the worst part.  After you've made those it's pretty easy and a fun block to put together. 

I also started a pillow cover for Bee A {Modern} Swapper's June pillow cover swap.  I don't want to show to much.  You'll see more of this in hopefully a more finished form on Friday for the Handmade Parade at Katie's blog.  I have my fingers crossed that my partner will like it. 

And...though I did get charms cut and mailed for 2 more swaps yesterday, I haven't done much else yet this week!!  Sigh...tomorrow I'll be more productive.

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced.

1 down...

...8 to go!

My only tip so far is to trim your HST's to 3.5"

It doesn't say this in the instructions so I did lots of unpicking yesterday...

Fabrics used are Curious Nature Arctic French Quarter (blue), and Stars and Stripes Red Small Stars.