Happy blocks

I've been working on a block of the week sponsored by the National Quilting Circle, and this is the fourth week.  This coming Friday we'll get the last set of instructions for the "bonus" block.  Each Friday, there are two blocks' instructions given, and we make two of one and send the second block to a partner who is making slightly different blocks.  Linda chose a pink, green, and white colorway, while I chose a red, black and white one.  Here are my blocks so far.

It's going to be a nice quilt!  I hope to get Linda's block done today so I can mail it tomorrow along with her blocks from another swap.  I paired up with Linda in Florida because I know she is always on time and does great work.  Meeting deadlines is probably left over from work for me, as I seemed always to be meeting one.  You wouldn't think a librarian would have so many, but I was a state bureaucrat, too.

My wall hanging My Small World (need to take a photo of the finished quilt) won first place in Show and Tell at Saturday's state quilt guild meeting.  One of our speakers was 88 years old and showed two beautifully hand quilted traditional quilts.  The other was a young woman who belongs to the Modern Quilt Guild.  Her quilts were great, too, and I loved this one.

Sorry about the light - it was right in front of a window and there was a crowd in the way.  It's a bit like a stack n whack, but, as she called it, with an alternate setting.  Lovely colors.