One of many projects!

I have several long term projects that I am working on. Today I will show you one of them and then hopefully every couple of days I'll post about the others.

You know my good friend in O'Fallon, Christine, has a quilt shop in her basement. I miss being able to go over and getting just what I need whenever I wanted. She sells most of her fabrics online, so I look at her website ( http://www.aroundtheblockquiltersshop.com/ ) and wish and dream. Well, in Jan. she joined in with the Riley Blake Mystery Block of the Month. Riley Blake is a fabric designer. They have tutorials on how to make each of their monthly blocks on their website. I had seen the info about the block of the month, but hadn't decided to sew along until I saw it on Christine's page. She has a pinterest page. So I am on pinterest without even having a page myself. I'm afraid of the time suck of it all. Here are my blocks:

January-- a simple HST chevron. (ps. I am not using Riley Blake fabric. Don't tell)

February -- my first attempt at paper piecing. It was very hard for me. Frustrating.

March-- another simple block. It is called Churn Dash. Riley Blake named theirs Simplicity.

Sorry, my pictures seem really dark. They will have 9 blocks altogether. They are 12 inch blocks. I am using the black print as my unifying fabric. You might recognize it from the quilt I made Izzy and MJ for the Christmas before last. Hopefully I will have enough. The other fabrics are just scraps from my stash. And I'm using a white Kona solid as my background fabric.

Enjoy your day. It is spring break here, but it snowed again yesterday and it might get up in the 50's by the end of the week. I am ready for some warmth. I'll be back soon with another project.