Miscellany

The Block Swappers Yahoo Group, the swapping branch of the Stash Busters Yahoo Group, is celebrating a ten year anniversary.    Starting in July we will be swapping six inch Bonnie Hunter style Chunky Churn Dashes for a year with a different theme for each month.  The theme for July is red, white and blue and I've got some ready to swap.  I won't swap the ones on the right because I missed the part where the center should be light fabrics so I will use those in my own quilt. 

This block is a great use of 2.5 and 1.5 inch scraps! 

Interested? 

Anyone can join the group and swap. 

The block of the month for Block Lotto is a Nine Patch Plaid block. 

I hope I win this month!  

With these blocks I can say good bye to several little pieces of blue fabric that were in the scrap box. 

Again, if interested, join Block Lotto and play. 

It's a Jungle Out There!

Six 12 inch Jacob's Ladder blocks 

made from some of the 4.5 inch HSTs and 4 Patches swapped with some of the members of the Block Swappers Yahoo Group. 

Even though I'm an old lady, I don't swap blocks made of "old lady" fabrics.   I usually make the wild ones.   And this quarter most of my blocks to swap have a jungle theme.  (I felt like monkeying around ). 

At Block Swappers we also swap 3 inch 9 patches quarterly.   I'm always on the lookout for fabrics with a small things printed on them.   I made a Sister's Choice quilt out of these little 9Ps last year.   After that I started using them in a couple of Jack's Chain quilts.  

Join up with Block Swappers Yahoo Group if you like swapping 4 patches, HSTs and/or little 9 patches AND if you don't mind some weird fabrics once in awhile. 

 There's also a swap going on now for 4 inch 4Ps and 4 inch HSTs in Civil War repro fabrics.  I need to get moving on those!