Charm Swap(s)

I recently discovered another quilting blog… Ellison Lane Quilts.  As I was reading older posts, I discovered that she was hosting a Charm Swap.  Having never participated in a swap, I was interested and excited to find out more, but it was already closed.  (Insert sad face here.)

I subscribed to Jennifer’s blog, and within a couple of days, she posted about another swap hosted by another blogger – Lorelei at Midnight Maker.  I hightailed it over to Midnight Maker, took a look around, liked what I saw, joined her blog and signed up for her swap.  Then I thought to myself, it would be nice to be able to do a few different things with these charms I’m going to be getting….maybe I’ll sign up to take 2 spots.  As soon as Lorelei opened her 2nd swap group, I took a spot in that one also!

The fabrics I chose for the swaps: Fox Trails Camping Toss Blue (Riley Blake Designs) for Swap #1 and 5 Funky Monkeys Red Counting Monkeys (Erin Michaels for Moda) for Swap #2.

I found the Fox Trails fabric while searching for new project fabrics last week, and thought I’d really like to make a quilt with these fun fabrics for our camper.  After looking at patterns and trying to draw something up myself, I decided that although I really like the fabric, I don’t think I’m going to make myself something with it this time around.  But I wanted to have at least a little piece of it, so I decided to use it for the swap.

The Funky Monkey fabric is a no-brainer if you’re a reader of my blog.  I love me some Funky Monkeys!

I ordered my fabric last night and I’m excited for them to come in.  But I’ll be honest – I’m not looking forward to cutting 56 charm squares from each of the fabrics!

I’ve been checking out the Flickr groups and I must say that I’m a wee bit excited about the swap and receiving my fabrics!

I’d like to think that I’ll get started on something right away, but I know myself, and I know that I should REALLY finish clipping seams on The Blue One’s flannel monkey rag quilt, then I should REALLY sew the binding onto the Sock Monkey Quilt, then I should REALLY sew the binding onto the first ever quilt top I made (over 8 years ago – gasp!).  I’m a project starter, not always a project finisher – can you tell?

I guess I’d better get to it…