What are you doing today?

Sharon has posed this question as part of her fat quarter give-away to celebrate her 25 posts and 25,000 visitors to her Chester County Criswell Quilt blog. If you leave a comment on her give-away blog post you could win these repro fat quarters.

Sharon's blog and her family's Chester County Criswell quilt inspired me to start my own blog so I'm more than happy to celebrate her milestones. So pop on over and leave a comment about your day, the give-away is open until April 25th.

Today I had to work and didn't do any sewing on the bus - I had the CCCQ #9 block ready to applique but didn't have the right thread, frustrating! But I did manage to make a start with the needle-turn this evening. 

I also did some squaring off and finishing of the blocks for the first row in my Morrell quilt. For instance I had completely missed sewing around one of the butterflies.

First row all finished and pieced. It's very exciting to be finally putting this quilt together. Each row has 8 x 10" blocks - it's going to be big!

This is the layout that my sister helped me work out yesterday. 
This is the first attempt...

Then after a number of changes and swaps 

this was the final layout that we were happy with.

As well as numbering all 61 blocks it's great having a print out of the layout to refer to whilst sewing it together - thanks J!