Breezing Along the Choose Your Own Block-Along

I've been busy with church activities this week, but I finally finished all the cutting for my Math Class quilt and managed to get six more blocks done for Choose Your Own Block-Along. The blocks go together very easily and quickly and with the added incentive to finish a block weekly, I might get done in time for my daughter's birthday in October instead of waiting until Christmas!

The X blocks are made by sewing printed strips to 6-inch squares and cutting edges off on the diagonal. The equals sign is simply 5 strips sewn together.

Chain piecing really helps speed things along, and I've found that pressing each as I sew it makes the final press so much easier.

I am linking to Cindy's blog. Be sure and visit the other links to see the varieties of blocks.

Choose Your Own Block-Along - Math Class Quilt

Cindy at Live a Colorful Life writes one of my favorite blogs, and when she wrote this post about accountability in quilting, it struck a chord with me. She and some of her friends decided that a collaborative effort might help keep each other accountable for the multitude of projects they have started but not finished (sound familiar?) Choose Your Own Block-Along will link up weekly on Mondays, and I chose to join in the fun.

Math Class Quilt

I normally don't buy quilt kits, but when I saw this Math Class Quilt pattern by Sweetwater, I loved the name, the idea, and the fabrics. Fabric Buffet had the best price, so I sprung for it.

The fabrics - oh I love them. Moda's Elementary by Sweetwater has names like Geometry, Equations, Art Class, Measure Up, Biology and colors of blue, tan, cream, and black.

Numbers and equations!

This will be the perfect Christmas gift for my daughter. Although she works in the field of oil and gas exploration and production as an Engineering/Geoscience Technician, she was a whiz in mathematics and majored in those studies for awhile in college. She and I are nerd-ish in our shared love of all things related to math (we celebrate Pi Day), so this will be the perfect Christmas gift for her.

The diagram shows a different border than the black, but I'm sticking with black - I think it makes the quilt. The quilt finishes at 66x71, so it should make a great TV watching quilt for her.

I started cutting yesterday afternoon and decided to put together a few blocks so I could post on today's link-up. Be sure and check out the other blogs!