Here is a pic of what I have so far for my beach theme quilt.

Received a stunnig block today from my partner, thanks so much.

Beautiful!

Have just finished putting together a batik quilt -- it is from swaps done on this thread, and two batik swaps with Dagny (send in 12 the same, get 12 different ones back). I have to thank everyone again for all the beautiful blocks so many of you did for me. I think it turned out magnificent and gorgeous and couldn't have done it without all the great blocks sent to me.

It is huge -- 9 blocks wide by 7 blocks long, plus sashing and borders. As I was laying it out, I decided that I would do strip quilting, the quilt as you go method. That is why the back is in strips. I figured if I had to cut up fabric, why buy 9 or 10 yards of something when I had all sorts of strips that could be used! I didn't have much trouble until the last three strips, by then it was fairly heavy! It is a quilt for me, so it doesn't bother me that the back is not batiks. And really easy to quilt because all you ever have under the throat of the machine is a maximum of 24" or so of material, all the quilted parts move to the left.

And now, a huge thank you for more extra March swaps. PokerDiva and Sapdoggie, great jobs! Beautiful blocks and I love them all. Thank you so much. My new quilt is coming along just great!

Judy, your quilt is just beautiful. The colors are wonderful.

WOW JUDY!!! Beautyful....................

Judy, what a great quilt! It's so beautiful and all the blocks go together so well. What a lucky girl you are!

I know, Terri, I really lucked out, everything looks so nicely together -- as if I planned it! :thumbup: Thanks for your comments, Andrea and Florence. I think I have 4 of Andrea's batik blocks in this quilt!

You are welcome. Looks like you have the start of another stunning quilt :!: :!: