No sewing yet, unless you count the triangle that had 2 dark pieces on one side that I took apart and made into another block. All of my blocks are now squared and I have a cool bag of clippings that I will separate the paper from and put in a glass jar. This is one possibility for my 9 patch blocks. I will try not to make them too perfect. Since a lot of the HST's have a medium background I will place those through the center. My Golden Tickets will get scattered throughout the quilt as we are all equal in God's eye. I have one other leisure project that has to be finished before I start sewing on this one. My Cynthia England "Split Rail" has 20 more sections to sew. If I did a section every day it would get finished quickly but that's not likely to happen as I have way too many ideas brewing in my head and I've only completed 2 sections so far this year and I'd planned on finishing it last year. I'm looking forward to seeing all of the beautiful quilts everyone is making.

Thanks Dawn.

I had edited this post to repost a lighter version of the quilt and somehow I deleted the part about the dog. My girlfriend had to hand feed Cooper due to a tremendous overbite. The portrait is something I learned from Maria Elkins "Making Faces" video via Quilting Arts/Interweave. It's four shades of a hand-dyed fabric - pretty clever. Not ME! Maria

SHAWN, I really like what you are doing with your HSTs. Love the X!

Jo Jo, it looks just as cute on this thread as on the other one!

Dawn,
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Margo and Shawn - just fabulous! Haven't decided what to do with my remaining HST's. I have about 300 left from my 618.

I posted this on another thread but since this one sez "what have you gotten sewn so far?" This is it. Still need to thread sketch the dog and quilt it.

Thanks, everyone, for the compliments.

Makesgeese, I am making mine the size in the pattern, 79" x 94". It takes 720 hst's. I got 504 from the exchange and then had to make the other 216, but it wasn't bad at all. I made them by pairing light and dark squares, drawing a diagonal on the back of the light square and then sewing a quarter inch on either side of the line, so I ended up with pairs that were the same, but that's fine with me.

Lorna, thanks! That Birds in the Air quilt is one of my favorites.

Shawn...love your hst blocks. The Mountain Top quilt is the one of Edyta's that caught my eye when she was on the show, and the one I thought I wanted to make. I like the contrast of the strong light "X" and the "border" of the same fabric around each block. Your blocks are looking great!
Seeing your blocks has confirmed that Mountain Top is the quilt I want to make. Thanks for that!

Maybe I'll post pics of mine here... in about six months.

Question? What size are you making yours? I'm just wondering how many more hst's I need to make. (I guess I know the answer to that...lots of them!)

Shawn, I like your blocks. I also like your Birds in the Air quilt on your profile--another good use of HSTs!
Lorna

Beautiful job Shawn and Margo. I am slowly pressing my HST and starting to separate the paper. I am finding it hard to separate the names to the fabric. Don't get me wrong, the paper comes off very easy, but I don't want to separate who sent what. I am thinking of taking photos in batches then somehow adding it to the back of the quilt. Still working on the logistics.

Shawn, THANKS for sharing!! What great ideas.


tj
Dillon, Montana USA

Shawn your blocks look great. I am looking forward to seeing the finished quilt.

Way to go, Shawn!! They look great!

Shawn, your blocks look great!! Thanks for sharing with everyone AND we'll all want to see the finished top and quilt.

Nancy in North Carolina

wow - looking fabulous - i'm soooo looking forward to receiving my packages
?maybe this week

Just wonderful! Must be something about Edyta's patterns - I love them all.

Wendy