a crazy, insane challenge

I guess I'm officially in. I recieved the first e-mail today, and the next one should arrive on January 1st. I'm a little giddy with excitement, a little horrified at the mere thought, and a tad bit relieved after reading posts from last year's quilters.

It's from Australia, and it's called the 365 challenge. For the entire year of 2018, there will be a pattern sent for either a 3" or 6" block. At the end of the year, the blocks are placed together to form a queen size quilt.

Insane.

And yet, I've put my name on the list.

http://www.365challenge.com.au

As long as I can keep up with downloading the patterns every day, then it's okay if I miss a day or two of quilting. Previous quilters cut out the fabric pieces each day and placed them with the pattern in a ziplock bag with the day's number on it so they could easily access it and keep up with what had been completed or not. And that seems somewhat manageable. So even if I don't have time to sew, what I need for that day's block will be ready to go.

Meanwhile, I've moved another tab from the "Piecing" pile of quilts in progress to the "Quilt" pile. Another project nearing completion. Hopefully I'll be updating my quilt page with at least one finished project before the year is out.

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