As part of my local quilting guild I belong to, I attend a smaller group once a month. This “quilting circle” I go to has about 25 members and we meet at a local quilt shop. It’s quite fun as we show and tell our latest projects and find out about all that’s going on in the larger guild of about 300 members.

Another thing we do regularly is exchange quilt blocks and fabric. Yesterday we had a novelty charm square exchange. Each person brought in 5 different 6 inch squares of “Eye Spy” fabric for each of 16 people that signed up for the swap. Here are the fabrics I chose. Don’t they look nice all cut up into tidy squares?

  It was nice to use fabrics from my stash! In exchange, these are the charms I received:

We each got a total of 80 charm squares, perfect for making an I Spy quilt or two!

In our little group we also have a drawing each month for who will receive a fat quarter assortment of their choice. I got picked this time around and I needed some nice chocolate browns to round out my stash so I put in my request. These are the ones I got – aren’t they yummy??Tonight I’ll be going to the larger group meeting where we usually have a “Quilt Celebrity” who comes to visit. I’ll post more about that tomorrow!