Gosh, I fought through this month’s do. Good Stitches charity squares.  Not because I don’t love them.  I do.  Not because they were hard.  They’re not.  Ugh, why?  I honestly couldn’t tell you other than my same ol sob story, I’m busy yada yada.  Plus, they were time consuming.  I finished one square mid April and just finished the second today.  Um oops, they were due in Michigan yesterday.  WHAT A SLACKER!  In my sad defence, once I did the first one I thought, dang that took half my day.  So I just glared at my pile of scraps for the next two weeks dreading round two.  Gosh, that’s so silly.  I’m just getting back from the post office where I promptly mailed them off to Natalie with Greenleaf Goods.  I can’t wait to see the finished product.  I really really love string quilts {i prefer large scale} and the hodgepodge of color.  Mmmm yummy color!

"Love" April Springy String Blocks

So I’m guessing you may want directions.  Natalie used this tutorial to direct us.  We were to use 9 4 1/2″ squares to assemble 1 large 12 1/2″ unfinished square.  The tutorial does suggest using paper piecing and glue.  Glue?  No thanks.  So what to do?  I did cut 4 1/2″ squares out of tracing paper I found in my kids craft closet {shhhh, don’t tell}.  I lined up my middle strip and pinned with 2 pins on the top and bottom.  I then cut and placed my next strip face down onto the mid strip.  This is the only time I sew through the paper.  For all the other strips, I tuck the paper out of the way and just sew onto the next strip of fabric.  It’s just as effective and leaves just one stitching line to pull paper from.  But first, I trim my fabric down to my 4 1/2″ piece of tracing paper before I remove it.  No glue necessary.  It’s faster…trust me!  Yes I do have patience, but why spend more time then necessary on things of this nature?  I’ve got to get dinner going if you know what I mean?

Block 1

Block 2

Colors of Spring

I love wonky!

I’m so very happy May’s squares are nice and simple!  It’s a lovely yet busy month.  If mostestest worstest busiestest month ever is a word or words…that’s my May!

Yay for S.I.M.P.L.E.!

♥ R