Happy New Year!

I hope and pray you've all had a wonderful beginning of this new decade 2020.  It's hard to believe that I have lived thru half of the 1900's and am into twenty years of 2000.   Do you all remember Y2K?  Oh what a scare that was and look where we are now!

I have started off my New Year by accepting the scrap quilt challenge at Persimon Dreams   It is a year long challenge so plenty of time to get 'er done!


January's block is the easy 9 patch block.   I jumped in and grabbed my charm square scraps and pulled out browns and creams.   Now, I am not a brown person but I have so many charms in those colors that it was a quick pick and since I will be donating this quilt to Mercy Hospital in California, it will make a really nice quilt for a man. 

On Friday, it took me about 3 hours to make all the blocks and then I decided I needed to do some kind of disappearing 9 patch pattern with them.   Searching thru the internet, I found 2 that were different than the ones you normally see.    Here is what I began with.

After cutting them as per the directions and resewing them together, this is how it looks.

I am very pleased and finished 4 of the blocks yesterday.   I hope to finish the rest today.   Yes, yes I know - its a year long challenge but getting the top assembled is satisfying and then I have the rest of the year to get it quilted and bound. 

What a great way to start of the New Year!