J, I love scrappy type quilts. All the prints in your picture looked nice to me. :-) I'm sure they will sew up into a nice quilt top at some time. The 2 mostly white ones wouldn't contrast very well with white for a block (like the block instructions for this month)-- and contrast is something to think about too. I'm glad you are comfortable with your choices now. The main thing is to have fun in a swap, that's what I think! I'm glad you are participating!
Linda, Wow, you wore feed sacks dresses to school. That's so... I don't know, American? :-) You must have a lot of cool memories. I was raised in the city and my mother didn't even want to keep a dog, so there weren't any feed sacks in my youth.