Quilt A-Long and Block Prep

True confession: I borrowed this DVD from a church friend a few weeks ago and I keep "forgetting" to give it back to her. I am kind of obsessed. Would you believe I had never seen it before? True story. Gregory loves it too. (pic credit)

Unfortunately, this post is going to be a lot of pictures of fabric - but I promise I have been sewing a lot. The project I completed over the weekend cannot be revealed until the recipient receives it and I have also been working on a boring, old UFO (picture at the end of post).

But I am excited about what's on my sewing agenda for the next few weeks. I made a spur of the moment decision yesterday to join the Blogger's Block-A-Palooza Quilt Along. I knew I should use my Hushabye FQ set I've had since the late summer. While watching Castle, I ironed all of the fat quarters last night and today I am going to complete the first block.


I also rifled through my stash to pull fabrics for my upcoming turn in the Hip to Bee Square flickr group.

I want to use these Far Far Away II fabrics as the focus.

I was surprised that I had much more orange options than aqua. Are there any I should omit? I am going for a gender neutral theme - i.e. no florals.

This is one of the oldest WIP's I have - and I only have about 1/4" of the binding left to hand-sew. Woohoo! I will show more pictures later.