"Goodnight Irene Sew Along Progress"

     You may remember back on January 7th I posted a picture of my first 5 Goodnight Irene blocks.
I had at the time decided to use a grey on grey for the background.  So many people are using grey so I thought "what the heck".  The blocks turned out nice but I was on the fence about them.  Every time I saw someone else's blocks I wanted to pitch mine in the trash.....Well, guess what?  I did just that yesterday.  It was time to make my February blocks so I put the grey ones up on the design wall and at that moment I KNEW it was time to start over before I got too far into this sew along....

     I pulled a Kona cream from my stash and proceeded to start cutting 4-1/2 inch white squares and attaching the corner units to make the "X".

     Once I got them done I made some more
of the 12 patch units and here below is what I have now......

     Some girls made their entire tops already and are starting the quilting process.  I haven't even decided how big I want to make this quilt yet.
I actually have enough units to make the quilt 6 x 8
so I might go with that size.....

     I was actually thinking I'd follow the name and do it as a monthly "sew along"......who knows now LOL.

If you'd like to see what the other girls are doing you can go over to Terry's Treasures and she has a linky on her sidebar linking all the girls blogs that are doing the sew along.   http://terrytreasures.blogspot.com

Oh and BTW, my fabrics are all different Fig Tree lines that I've been saving over the years.  I have some really old scraps and then I have their new line scraps thrown into the mix.

I really love all the fig tree fabrics and can't wait to see how this quilt turns out.

Hope everyone enjoys the Super Bowl.....


Peggy