…the goose is getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man’s hat!
No, I’m not ready.
I have several baby quilts that need labels and two need bindings. I plan to be on the couch hand sewing for the next couple of days, to get most of my gifts finished in time for the family Christmas party.
I got my hair cut yesterday, and Dear Husband and I visited with our granddaughters and their mother in the afternoon and evening. This morning I made a breakfast casserole, lead exercise class, and then went to the class Christmas brunch.
I’m going to finish some things in the office, make a pot of Minestrone, and then blitz the labels and bindings! It’s cold out. Having a quilt on my lap for the next two days will be no hardship, believe me!
Then……beginning next week, I think I’ll make Christmas cookies and wrap gifts.
As Dear Husband say when I fret about getting things done, “In a hundred years, no one will remember it didn’t get finished!” I’m taking his advice to heart more and more.
Merry Christmas!

Well, you know that I have twenty others in the works, some of which will be finished in the next two days, but a quilter can never resist starting something new even when she is in the midst of other quilts.
One of the ladies at bee showed a lovely quilt she had made. I was looking at the block and realized it would be perfect for a child’s quilt, using the bright scraps we had been given for Scraps on a Mission. So, I interrupted finishing several baby quilts in order to make up some of the blocks. I wanted to be sure the pattern would work before I blabbed about it to one and all! *G*

These blocks will be sewn together with white sashing, but the flannel board behind the blocks gives you and idea of how it will look. I think I may make several more of these, one in teal, one in red, white and blue, and possibly one in red and black and white.
The idea for the block came from the blog “Film in the Fridge.”. Here’s a link to the tutorial the blogger created:

rectangle squared – a quilt block tutorial

The dimensions in the tutorial are for cut sizes. The block turns out to be seven inches square (6.5″ finished).
So there, Cop Car! I followed through. What do you think of this? Is it a good way to use up scraps??