Eighteen new blocks to show you this week, plus Joan Crossman (a friend from my block-of-the-month group at Close to Home) brought back two finished quilts. She and one of her friends made a few blocks to add to the pile that she took after the last assembly day, then she quilted them beautifully with lovely motifs in every block, and bound them too. A big thanks to Joan!

The next assembly day is set for Saturday, September 8, from 10-5 at Close to Home in Glastonbury. I hope to have a full classroom, so we can get a bunch of tops assembled and backs prepared to the correct size. Once again, I can still use 20-30 volunteers to quilt the tops. They're not too big, so please don't feel intimidated by a huge project. Email me if you can help. I can send all of the supplies to you, and you don't even have to bind them if you don't want to - some wonderful local quilters are waiting for the chance to do more bindings!

Now this week's blocks:

Thanks to Phyllis (also in my block of the month group) for these four pretty blocks. Beautiful fabrics!

Thanks to Nichole P of North Carolina for these four pretty blocks:

Thanks to Christie S. of Pennsylvania for sending 8 blocks with the cute Hokie fabric:

And thanks to Marcy B. of Maryland for these two blocks. Marcy, I don't think you need to worry about being a (self-titled) "novice" - these blocks are terrific! The one on the left reminds me of southwestern designs. So pretty!