Heartstrings Block Party

This weekend was designated a Block Party Weekend at the Heartstrings Yahoo Group. I had a big stack of muslin squares all cut and ready to start making blocks on Friday. I got 24 blocks finished and am trying to decide the layout. I HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME WITH RANDOM that I decided that one side would be blues and the other white/creams. Now the layout:

This was how I laid them out as they were finished:


Or maybe like this:


Or This:


I should say that planning a navy/cream homespin border, but I didn't get a picture of it.

Gosh, how will I determine how much fabric I used for these?

Circle Lord Spirals

This is a Heartstrings quilt made by Melva and it is so pretty with the lights and darks. I tried the spirals template on it this evening and I'm not sure that I used it quite right, as it wasn't continuous. I wanted to have a full spiral in each square and a half size one in between, which meant a stop/start between each pair. I think I probably could have figured it out, but I ended up having company....my granddaughters and a friend of theirs.