Last week I told you about some of the fun things my sewing circle does. We recently had a block exchange where we all made the same block in our choice of colors. The only rule was to use a cream or tan background.

About a month ago I cut out the pieces for the blocks. I’m fond of rust and green so I found enough material in my stash that I thought would work. I only had enough background for half of the blocks so after I made those, I had to cut some more!

The block is sewing intensive and I started out by sewing half square triangles. With the leftovers from the first block I made a second smaller pinwheel block. Then, the leftover pieces from the second block made a smaller pinwheel. So it’s like 3 blocks for the price of one (except for the fact that it took a lot longer to sew them).

In fact, here’s pictures of me frantically trying to get them done in time for my meeting. I had to use the help of my assistant Marcie, to trim and press while I sewed like crazy!

Marcie had fun taking a break from cutting fabric orders to help me out.

Here are my finished blocks, just in the nick of time!

The nice thing about a block swap is the variety of blocks I received in return. Now the hard part – how do I put them all together??