When I signed up to Sheridan’s Block Swap I thought it would be fun, but I didn’t realise just how much fun – or how challenging!  My first lot of fabrics arrived in the mail on Monday – and I’ve already sewn up my first eight blocks.  We are sewing 9-patch blocks using someone else’s feature fabric and matching it to fabric from our own stashes.  Eventually all the blocks containing my own feature fabric will be returned to me to be assembled into a quilt.

I had three feature fabrics to work with, and came up with these blocks.  Firstly, for Bronwyn:

Next, for Beth:

and the last two are for Susie.

As Sheridan had told us, it only took about six minutes to sew up each block – but she failed to mention the hours it took me to decide which fabrics to match up with each one!