This post should probably be subtitled “the one in which I caved” because in spite of my determination to resist, I jumped into the scrappy trip along this week with both feet.

I kept reading about how much fun these blocks are to make and late Saturday night I decided I’d better find out if it’s true.  It is.  I’m having so much fun with these.  In fact, it’s pretty much all I want to do.  While it meant I didn’t get other things done, I feel happy to have joined in.  I still wish I’d jumped into the Farmer’s Wife quilt along and I had a feeling I’d regret not joining this one.   Now I’ve got a pile of strips all cut up just waiting to become part of this quilt.

Lots of color, and I couldn’t be happier.  I did force myself to put them away while I work on my HST project, which has gone from a pile of squares to a bunch of strips laying on the bed, just waiting to be pieced together.

Terrible lighting, I know, but it was taken at night.  I hope to get this quilt top pieced in the next 24 hours.

And, of course, I’m working on my Scrappy Swoon:

This week I’ll keep working on these three projects, and I also hope to find time to start working on the sawtooth quilt I mentioned last week as well as finish up that Ellen’s Sewing basket block.  I also need to pull myself away from the very rewarding task of piecing and do some basting, quilting and binding.  Maybe if I let myself make another trip-along block every time I complete another task?  We’ll see how far I get!

Good luck to you in your projects.
Jennifer

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