Grown-up blocks going home this morning to ArizonaKat and dotcomdtcm. :) Pics will be in my album shortly.

Received this gorgeous "Winged Four Patch" block from awilson today! Thanks so much! I love the colors you added to it, and the pattern is so pretty! :thumbup:

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Are we suppose to post pictures on the main screen of blocks we receive?

Grown-up blocks headed home in the morning to joanelizbay and bluelady.

Bluelady's fabric was totally outside my "box", which made it lots of fun. :thumbup: I was stuck, then got an idea and just kind of "ran with it". I like how it turned out. Hope you do, too! :)

moonrise! I LOVE it! It is soo fun! (yes, I peeked.. lol. I am not one to wait!) What a great start for my blocks!!

moonrise, I finished your block tonight too. Picture is in my album. Hope you like it as much as I love mine! (I don't know the name of the block, I just kinda made it up, but I am sure it has a name somewhere.)

I received my first 2 F8 from the group today. Abbys Mom and awilson yah!! Now to pick blocks?

Bluelady - Oh, I LOVE it! It reminds me of four chairs sitting around a little flower garden in the middle of a pretty green lawn. Thanks so much! :thumbup: Glad you like yours, too. :)

I recieved a squishy from joanellizbay yesterday.

I peeked! The block is perfect! Thanksgiving is winning the holiday swap :-)

KAT

Weekly Update:

Received f8: Abbt's Mom; awilson, bluelady, dotcomdtcm; Grandma Di; Joanelizbay; ljdugas; Moonrise; Sunrise450.

I'm in three different groups and put them in order of quilting as they come in. So Taygete Abby's Mom, you are up next.

KAT

I fear I may have limited people in some of my holiday boom requests. So if you are inclined and have the fabric laying around, it's ok not to listen to my request. You can use holiday fabric to match up with what I sent.

I hope this didn't confuse you as much as it did me.

KAT

I got 2 blocks back from awilson today. Since Im not sure which one I want to use with which group Im going to post them both here. I LOVE them, esp the Pooh!! Thanks! 3 more to finish the fast group (still waiting on one F8) then Ill start on this groups!

received F8's from
Abby's Mom
Ahwu
awilson x 2
bluelady
dotcomdtcm
Grandma Di
joanelizbay
ljdugas
Moonrise
Sunrise450

I finished up another swap commitment so now I'm working on getting my fabric washed/cut/stuffed this weekend. I finally decided on fabrics. :)

Got a grownup done for awilson. Pic is posting in my album.

The mail lady brought a bunch of squishies today!

From this group, I got:

F8 from ahwu
F8 from AnneMixon

I'm short on time this weekend, but I'll start sewing again on Monday evening. :)

Looks like the only F8's I lack are cuppy, kareno, oldcatlady, and Quiltaddiction. :)

Thank you blue lady for the awesome block. I love the different shades you used together! It's going to look so cool in my rainbow quilt:)

Received F8's from:
ahwu
atpegsquiltstudio
dotcomdtcm

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day. I recieved f8's from AHWU and AtPegsQuiltStudio yesterday.

Received F8 from joanelizbay and Anne Mixon today!

Update. I have received F8s from:
AbbysMom, Anne Mixon, Awilson, dotcomdtcm, GrandmaDi, joanelizbay, ljdugas, moonrise, Sunrise450.

Thanks!

Sunrise450, I have completed your block and it is in my album! It shall go in the mail Monday or Tuesday!

AnneMixon, your block is completed. :) Picture in my album.

Received blocks from moonrise and Grandma Di today.

hello - i cannot find the list of addresses. i was wondering if someone will e-mail it to me. i have been sending fabric to those that i receive so far. my addy is [email protected].
thanks, margaret

Just sent you to addresses.

Let me know if you get it.

Margaret
Check your spam folder as I sent it to you again as well :)
Hello all
Sorry I have been MIA I was in Ottawa for a work conference and boy was it amazing all around!
I also came home to find out the information on hubby is not good :( We go on Wednesday for him to get 12 shots in his spine. If that doesn't help they are going to go in and burn the nerve endings and if all else fails he is looking at a double fusion :(
I hope you are all doing well. I always love to see the chatter going on in the groups :)
Hugs
April

I just received f-8ths from cuppy, kareno, Quiltaddiction, AnnMixon. I also received a beautiful completed block from Moonrise. I sent out atpegsquiltstudio today. The photo is in my album.

Got the motherlode today! Received F8s from atpegsquiltstudio, frenchfryqueen, cuppy, jclinganrey, AZTess1, ArizonaKat and kareno.

Received a bunch of F8s today. The only ones missing are from atpegsquiltstudio and oldcatlady. Sunrise450, I finished your block - just needs a final press and in the mail tomorrow.

Got a bunch of squishies today! F8's from cuppy, kareno, and Quiltaddiction, and a block from GrandmaDi. :)

As soon as I get my work area cleared off, I'll get caught up on taking photos of the blocks that arrived in the last few days, and start working on the F8's that have arrived. Over the weekend, we made a prototype rain/sun hood for my recumbent trike, along with new flags, and it looks like a tornado swept through my craft/sewing room! Here's a photo of my trike, with the hood on. The mounting bracket's not finalized yet. Right now it's a piece of plywood. LOL! My husband built our trikes, using recycled parts from broken bikes. We go riding nearly every weekend, and have put close to 800 miles on the bikes so far. :) He's going to re-paint mine a brighter red (right now it's dark red), and he's going to paint his blue and it'll have a blue hood. The flags match ... and they're quilted! :)

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Okay, I've added the received blocks to my album, and it's up to date now. Thanks so much! I love every one of them! :thumbup:

Got my grown up block today from Moonrise! My first one. And I absolutely LOVE it! Dresden plate with a modern twist, a perfect match for that funky fabric!

moonrise, that trike is amazing! Made from old broken bikes.. way to re-use! Love it!

Thanks! :) We first saw a pair of recumbent trikes last year when we were driving through a local park, and I couldn't believe it! I've got a bad knee due to a fall in the shower several years ago, and riding a regular bike isn't possible, but I was sure I could ride a recumbent trike. We hurried home, did some searching on the internet, thinking they'd cost maybe $500 or $600. We were ready to buy two of them right then and there! :D But we were shocked when we found how much they actually are. The ones like we saw in the park are $2,200 each just for the basic model, and the prices skyrocketed from there! OUCH! That wasn't in the budget at all. :( But we kept looking, and read online that some people had built their own. DH is quite handy, and we found some plans online, so he gave it a try, and within just a couple of months, he had the first trike built, and the second one followed shortly afterwards. We ended up spending around $500 for both of them. We had to buy a welder, steel, vinyl for the seats, various odds and ends, and some used and broken bikes (some free; some not) but $500 is infinitely better than spending $4,400 or more. :thumbup:

Here's a video I made a couple of months ago. It's loud for the first couple of seconds. A noisy truck was passing by on the road behind us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2YBfkGc_I

And here's a rather funny video of the very first time DH took my freshly-built trike out for a test ride. It still needed lots of adjustments, especially getting the gears right, and he couldn't initially climb our hill. He pedaled as far as it would go, then said, "I'm stuck". The way he said it still cracks me up! :D The seat was just plywood at that time, and the steel was bare metal. He didn't want to paint it or do the seat covering until the mechanical kinks had been worked out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZ5Yv6BXkA

We've had a BLAST with them! :thumbup:

Two F8 tonight from Sunrise450 and Bluelady and so pretty!

Mailing a grown-up block home to atpegsquiltstudio this morning (mailing both this group's block and the Celaeno block in the same envelope). Hope you like them!

Anyone interested in an extra swap?

I have 10 so far but would like several more. I am sending out an Asian butterfly fabric I bought while living in Japan.

Let me know,

I love seeing the blocks posted here on the board. I think this encourages people who aren't in the swap to join another time. I know that's what 'hooked me'. I would never have thought about looking in albums when I started. We are away on vacation for a bit. I did bring F8's with me for the few that were delivered before we left. I'll update when we get back.

Got 4 F8s yesterday and a finished block from Moon...I didnt have internet at home OR cable so I couldnt post pictures of the 4 or 5 that I have ready to mail or of the finished one from moon. Ill do that tonight if Sudden Link decides to get off their butts and fix the neighborhoods cable. POOR customer service to make us wait until the next work day when there are several houses out! ughhhh..... I do have a question for Cuppy...who is the F8 gonna be for with the flip flops on it? There was no note with it...boy or girl? colors?? Its so cute!! Hope I can post pictures tonight!