Still needed: 99 blocks
fabric for backing & sashing
offers to quilt

Did you notice? Only 99 more blocks to go!!! I know Christine from New Hampshire collected a bunch through her HGTV block lottery, but I don't have a final count from her yet - but I'm pretty sure it will get us almost the whole way there. This is very exciting!

We had another quilt top assembly night at Clover Hill Quilts in Berlin, CT on Monday evening. There were a dozen wonderful quilters gathered, and we got nine tops finished, and several huge lengths of binding ready to use as well. Thanks so much to all of you: Carol Peterson, Sara Cameron, Linda Garcia, Ginger Rondini, Alice Tonucci, Mary Pilch, Jeannie Sinkiewicz, Shelly Love, Barbara Patenaude, and of course Diane Jacobson for letting us use the classroom. Plus, Elaine Reimer from Wethersfield stopped in to drop off two more quilts that she bound - so the tally of completely finished quilts (except for labels) is now up to 11. There are 10 more at various quilters, and a dozen tops ready to go out to be quilted (so if you would like to help, let me know!). I'm putting together a new chart to track the progress of assembly now. I'll post it when I finalize all the counts. This is quite an organizational task!

Here are a few photos of the assembly night:

And here are the photos of the most recent batch of 23 blocks to share with you.

Thanks to Violet K of Pennsylvania:

Thanks to Sherry C of Maryland:

Thanks to Mary B from one town over in Connecticut. You can't see in the photo, but the "Hokie" is entirely turned under. Wow!

Thanks to Gwen G of Connecticut:

Thanks to Georgia A of California:

Thanks to Carolyn B of Michigan:

Thanks to Betty R of Virginia:

Thanks to Betty C of Pennsylvania:

From now on, if you're still following along (and thank you so much if you are), I'll probably post once weekly, probably on Sunday afternoon or evening. So stay tuned! I'll be getting photos of lots of finished quilts up soon, so you can hunt for your own blocks...