Block O' the Month

By lucky chance I went to a quilt shop just days before they were starting this year's "Last Saturday Sampler" also known as The Five Dollar Quilt. You pay five bucks. They give you a little kit to make a quilt block, including fabric and pattern. You come to the meeting on the Last Saturday of each month of the year. If you bring last month's finished block with you, you get the next month's kit for free. So at the end of the year, you've been able to make a quilt for five bucks. Plus there are prizes and drawings. At the meeting they just tell you what's going on at the shop and show you new products.

This is the finished block for January. I've done this once before, at a quilt shop in Sandy, Utah. Just last fall I put those blocks together into a quilt for my baby Scotty and it was good I already had them done, nine years ago, or else Scott might not have gotten a good baby quilt from me.