Workin’ on the chain gang…

That song just popped into my head when I was taking photos of the most recent blocks I finished for my Tone It Down quilt.

Last time I took photos to share on my blog, I had 8 blocks completed.  Now there are 12!  I’m not so sure I can live with the blocks that are more o than x.  Please tell me it’s okay.  I am going to cut the rest of the fabric for the last 8 blocks today.  I was thinking of trying to make the rest kind of like the 4th one from the left on the bottom row.  Both x and o?

The star fabric is from one of Juliana Horner’s collections at Joann’s.

So is this gray and black check.  Both were perfect for a manly quilt.

Not a lot of sewing has been going on here.  It has been incredibly busy but hopefully will settle down in about a month.

Linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts and Fort Worth Fabric Studio on Friday.

Blowin’ in the Breeze

I tried to get a photograph of the three blocks I’ve finished so far for my Tone It Down quilt, but the weather has been quite uncooperative the past few days.  Rain, snow, & now strong winds are not  making it easy to take a photo!

Somehow I missed the Quilt Along associated with this quilt.  I’m not sure how it worked, because the pattern was in a February edition of a quilting magazine and from what I see online, the QAL was last year in November or December.  No matter, I’m enjoying making these blocks one-by-one at my pace.  This quilt does not need to be finished until July, so there’s no hurry.

Despite the terrible weather continuing well into the end of March, the spring cleaning bug has bitten me and I painted another room yesterday.   This bedroom is now a home office.  A light shade of blue from the mistints at Lowe’s transformed the walls.  We still need to hang the artwork and move some shelves in, but I’m hoping to keep this room clean and uncluttered.  Fingers crossed!  Now I’m ready to start painting my daughter’s room finally.

Hope you are having a wonderful (and spring-like) day!