Oh, to be outside and warm like it was last week. Today it’s bitter cold and the wind is blowing new snow all over. At least the sun is shining but I feel sorry for my little crocus that jumped out of the ground a couple days ago when it was 70 degrees. There is a sad little clump of frozen yellow flower heads peeking out of the snow standing there frozen in place! They’re probably wondering “What was I thinking!” What a crazy winter we’ve had and I know it’s been pretty harsh all over this country. I will surely be glad when this one is over. My aching bones are ready for some real Spring!

This month’s clue is a week late because I went on a quilting retreat. What a great time! Good friends, good food and four days of great quilting time. My goal was to get rid of a bunch of UFO’s (unfinished objects) that have been lurking around messing up my quilting room and I finished most of them! Having that extra space just makes my heart happy.  Now I can rearrange things a bit. It almost makes me feel like I did some spring cleaning although I should probably do that too! But then again I don’t want too get excited about doing anything like that!!! There’s still quilting to be done!!! Priorities! You know?!

So since this will be a short month to work on this clue I made it Easy Peasy for you. Next month we’ll be finishing it up with final instructions and the reveal. All right…..Let’s get to it!

Stars and Strips Forever – Clue #3

• Using 5 – 4″ inside border #1 squares and 4 – assorted 4” squares assemble and make a 9 patch block as shown below. Press and trim to 10 1/2″ square. Make 10.

I told you it would be easy peasy!

You have three weeks until the next and final clue on April 8th. Get caught up if you need to.

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