Supernova Block Swap

Fellow MQG member Sandra, who blogs at One Million Stitches and her friend Stephanie of  Late Night Quilter put together an event called the Supernova Friendship Block Swap. I have already joined, and if you would like to join as well, hop over to one of their blogs and let the fun begin.

The idea is to pair up with a quilter you really do not know all that well (a fellow blogger, somebody you met on a quilting forum) and swap Supernova Friendship blocks. You will end up with a gorgeous quilt and in the process learn more about each other. The way how Sandra and Stephanie explained is that  "each time we send our surprise package with a new block in it, we’re also going to include a few details about ourselves.
Each month we’ll add a couple of questions on our blogs for all of us to answer and give to our partners. With my experience as a journalist and Stephanie’s as a psychologist, you can bet we’ll have no trouble coming up with some interesting ones!"

I think this is going to be a blast. I am already ransacking my finally organized underground lair for suitable fabrics. Supernova is designed by Lee at Freshly Pieced, who featured it last year on her own Supernova Quilt Along.

Supernova by Lee from Freshly Pieced (used with permission)

(Long) Armed and Dangerous

Like every creative person, I am a procrastinator extraordinaire. If I have a deadline, I will make it with no issues. BUT, you can believe me when I say that 90% of work will be done in the last possible moment, with no room for error, power outage, machine malfunction, or thread breaks. I am sitting on a mountain of quilt tops ready to be quilted. I procrastinated for over a year. My excuse - I lost my long arm and I was in mourning. Well, no more excuses, my brand spanking new Handi Quilter Avante is coming home....finally. I have cleared the space, measured it many times, and yes, it can fit in my underground sewing den, all 12 feet of it. All I need now is time to quilt those tops....and this is how it starts, the new excuses to procrastinate are popping up....