for the contest....don't be concerned if the date (april 9th) is different in some of the questions...just look for the year.

I just wanted to check in with my most recent birthday CANDY! Thank you sooo much Gannyrosie, Jarenie, and KarenG. This is a lot of fun and it's not real bad to be the Birthday Princess for sooo long. :) I'm just missing two candy sets...no one. :)

I lied, dad just brought in the mail. One more set from: Pjjandme!!!! Thank you!!!!

sewbizgirl....please clear out your pm box...it is telling me you are full :)

March birthdays

Jarenie is still waiting on 3 (she might have them ...she has not been on in awhile)
Mrshailibut is waiting on 1
BJSmith57 is waiting on 1
mrs.sherbert is waiting on 2

I believe I have heard from these people and they should be on their way..... looking forward to mark my sheet (I have one for each of you) complete!!!!!

Barb

also we have 2 birthdays in April (2&9) and then we don't have one until mid May. Please take this time to get your packages ready to mail. I will send out addresses on April 20th (Easter) Also please keep coming back to the thread during the month I plan on posting some ideas to use your sweet little candy squares.

feel free to post your own ideas on here and also any projects that you are working on.


:)Barb

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As of today, I have received candies from everyone. Thank you all. Lots of square everywhere.
Here is a baby quilt I made with last year Birthday Candies and SheriR's Swap. It used up all my pinks. Baby girl is due May, and I am not so motivated to quilt it...

ahwu! That is so cute!!! It almost makes me wish I were having a baby. Well NOOOOO :D ha ha ha but some baby girl is going to be happy!!!!

Yup, those are the ones. I have no pattern, just figured out the math. For the alternate "X" blocks you need 4 squares of background fabric, each 4.5" square. For the points I used more 2.5" squares. I laid them in the proper corners of the background fabric and sewed diagonally across them. You can figure it out by looking at a picture.

Here is an actual pattern if you'd rather use one:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6qz...U3M/edit?pli=1

Ok, as promised I have pictures of my goodies received today. These first two photos are beautiful squares from Barb. The first photo shows my birthday squares, and the second one shows my two contest prizes. See why you need to be playing these contests? Thanks so much Barb! Love all of these.

I also received these lovely candies from pjjandme. Thanks so much, Shannon! These are great... :)

It's so much fun to see the pictures of the candies,they are all great and I'm loving all the pattern ideas, although I have to wait until December for candy!

Oops... sorry. Done!

Alice, I LOVE your pink baby girl quilt. Isn't it great to be able to make a scrappy with no two fabrics alike? That's why these swaps are so worth it!

I just located Jenny Doan's tute on the Arkansas Crossroads pattern, if anyone wants something a little more "visual"...
http://quiltingtutorials.com/basic-s...awesome-quilt/

Not really... SherriR has a candy swap going on right now that you could join and have candy by June!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/member-...p-t243923.html

I hope people will continue to check this thread between now and KarenG's birthday in mid-May. Would love to 'talk' with all of you and besides that, I'll be showing my Ark Crossroads quilt top when I get it together! LOL...

wow AHWU very lovely! I think I recognize some pink little squares!

Yeah for you to have completed the birthday swap....glad everyone is accounted for!

Thanks for posting the prizes sewbizgirl...maybe thats why I had 7 people play my game!!!!!

And we have a winner benndm is the winner congrats Diane your prize will be in the mail shortly!

Barb

Ha ha ha... maybe so! The prizes are neat! Congrats benndm.

I got a squishie today from Karen G, so I'm still a birthday princess. Take a look at the beautiful charms she sent! The bottom row is all gorgeous batiks, but the other 4 rows all go together. Looks like they are all Chez Moi fabrics. So pretty! Thank you so much Karen. Chez Moi is one of my favorite designers so I will keep these all together in their own bag, and use them for something all by themselves. I think I'm going to round up all the batiks and do something just with them, too. I'm so excited about what I can do with all these goodies you ladies have sent. Only two more squishies due to come my way, then I'll start enjoying everyone else's birthday goodies vicariously.

Sewbizgirl thanks for the swap shout out! It keeps my candy happy until my birthday... February! :D

Here's the lovely collection I received from Nurse Bonnie today... Thank you so much Bonnie. These are wonderful. I love the batiks and especially the beautiful red rose fabric. Reminds me of what my hubby gave me for my birthday-- two beautiful, perfect red roses!

I just posted these in Pictures, as a sneak preview of my quilt. I'm using up those candies as they roll in! Hope you like it so far:

Here's my board http://www.pinterest.com/grannyrosie/
Love the purse. Lord I hope I didn't miss any April Birthdays. Please if I ever miss someone, there will not be any hard feelings, only a big thanks for letting me know I forgot. My plates are full so feel free to keep me on board. I think there was only 3 Aprils, right?

I do love it, if I wasn't making these 1inch Hex's with the extra 2.5 squares, this is a quilt I will do. I am making me a couple of scrappys like this pic I made. Gave it to a BFF who was[ATTACH=CONFIG]471419[/ATTACH] down in the dumbs before xmas and now I want one and well I just might as well make two.

WOW! Now I can't say I never win anything. Barb, thanks for all your time and work.

Grannyrosie - I love that quilt. I have been sorting my candy by color but I wasn't sure what I would do with them. I really like yours. Thanks for sharing.

There were only two and you got both of them done! Thanks again...

LOVE your quilt of 9-patches, Gannyrosie! Thanks for showing it. I enjoyed looking at your Pinterest boards too.

Sewbizgirl and Grannyrosie, I like your quilts.

Sewbizgirl,
I LOVE the background fabric you selected on this quilt and i see at least two of my fabrics in your pix. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, be away for a while and all kinds of things happen. Life just got in the way and I didn't have time to check into the board for about two weeks.

Congratulations Barb on the refinance. I am sure that is huge relief.

Also, I do enjoy the games, even though I have not participated in the last three. My FT job has been kicking my you know what.

Also thanks to everyone for posting all the pattern ideas.

You're using you're candy for 1" hexis??? WOW. That's a picture I need to see. Amazing!

Welcome back, Diana!

Grannyrosie, I love your quilt, I think by far that is my favorite. I hope you don't mind if I copy it. Just love it. Thanks for sharing.

Barb, I received my prize, Thanks for the wonderful fabrics. I will post a pic soon.

I am doing a color fading into the next color quilt (I don't really know what to call it) with most of the squares. I've gotten a lot more since I took this pic and am able to fill in the colors better. This is only the top half.

I received my lovely squares from Nurse Bonnie today along with a lovely card.

Thank you so much Nurse Bonnie:)

Love that quilt layout, mrshalibut! Like a rainbow... That will be one awesome quilt!

Wow mrshalibet. I live it. Such great ideas here.

Mrshalibut I love your faded layout. I would love to try to make one but I think I need a big design wall which I don't have. Maybe some day. I'll add it to the list. Be sure to show us the finished quilt top.

Thank you benndm, I will. I don't have a big wall either. I just put it on the floor, which is tricky because I have cats. Anyone who has cats knows they run and then slide through all the blocks, fight with each other on the blocks, roll on the blocks and then run away with some of the blocks stuck to their fur. I find them all over the house. I have to work fast!

That's my problem too... no design wall. For the AR Xroads quilt I'm working on I have to trot up and down the stairs to lay it out on a spare bed! I've made lots of trips up and down. At least I'm burning some good calories, LOL.

Here's another idea I saw, for using our candies...
http://www.thecalicocottagequiltshop...3#.U06eAVclC2Q
You'd just have to add in your own fabrics for the stars.

Oh I love that pattern. I like all the patterns that's been shown.