I follow Shelly at Prairie Moon Quilts and she has a 350 Block Challenge. I made it through last year. But this year I thought I would share my progress as each month progresses. If you want to follow Shelly and her blog and Block Challenge you can find it here: https://prairiemoonquilts.com

For January I made 11 Double 9 Patch Blocks for a BOM with the Hospitality Chapter of the Richmond Quilt Guild. I made 11 in hopeful anticipation that I would win the pot of blocks. No such luck, but they sure were pretty.

Then I went on to the Morning Star blocks that were cut for me by Terry Burris Quilting. Nine of those were finished.

Not sure how I am going to put these together as I have used every single inch of the blue spatter that is used as a background. They sure are pretty though. I will admit that these went together alright, but they were not my favorites as they have a little curl in the block. Maybe that will remedy itself once I find a solution to my background problem.

In spite of the fact that I haven’t done any foundation paper piecing in a really long time, I’ve been entertained by constructing this delightful garden of blocks.

They are sew stinking cute! As of yesterday I have 3 Carrots, 3 onions, 2 beets, 4 corn, 4 watermelon and 6 little nine patches. These come from a Quilt Maker magazine from the summer of 2000. I can’t wait to use them in my What Do You Grow challenge for the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival at the end of this month…wait, the end of this month. I better get busy finishing…

Piece!