Penny Pincher Basics

Blog for penny pincher quilt block swaps

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Blocks from Jane

Today in my mailbox, safe from the snow, were these pretty blocks from Jane (tartan) The one in the top row, middle spot is a beautiful purple and blue iris fabric, I hope I end up with one of those.


Jane (tartan) blocks for pp8

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Blocks from Desiree

Today sitting on my kitchen counter when I arrived home from work were these beautiful blocks from Desiree. She sent a wonderful variety of blocks for swapping.


Desiree's pp8 blocks

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Tommie's Blocks

Tommie's blocks are here. They are much prettier than my bad photography shows them. Sorry, bad picture.

Tommie's blocks

Monday, September 24, 2007

More PP8 Blocks in the mail today

Today I received a sample of blocks to come from SueFoo (I love this fabric)

sue foo's block

blocks from NLaurie
NLaurie's blocks

and blocks from Vanessa (pacificnwgirl)

pacific nw girls blocks

Every time more blocks arrive, I think, I gotta make me some more, so I can be sure and get one of each of these. LOL. Then today, I sadly realized I could have one of each, and it wouldn't do me any good since I'm giving this quilt away in the end. Terrible terrible. The blocks are all wonderful.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

fun fun fun

Yesterday I received blocks from Tracy (fabric-dragon) They are great!

Tracy fabric-dragon pp8 blocks

and here is a picture of my second batch, I just finished making

colene pp8 set 2

Friday, September 21, 2007

beautiful blocks in the mailbox

Today I arrived home from work to find gorgeous blocks in the mailbox. A full set of these from Judy (judycomelately)

pp8 block from judy (judycomelately)

And..... from Frances (tilly) two sets, of beauties mixed sets that is. I had to take two pics to get them all in, and then the second picture didn't turn out, so here are most of them.

some of france's blocks for pp8

Monday, September 17, 2007

Penny Pincher 8 Shoo Fly Variation Blocks

Catching up on pictures of blocks I've received for the penny pincher 8 swap. This first set is from
Becca

Becca's pp8 blocks

These are Susan J's

Susan j's pp8 blocks

and here are mine

colene's pp8 blocks

The mailing deadline is fast approaching 14 days from today. You can join the swap or the chatter here.