Swap blocks

I pulled out the swap blocks the other day and have been doing a little quilting of each block separately. I am trying out the "quilt as you go" method I saw on Simply Quilts the other day. I recorded it and am currently trying to attach a couple blocks to see how it goes. It is going a lot better than I thought it would. Hopefully the sashing between rows will go as well as these. I am using a multi color print with a black background for the sashing. It really brings out the brightness in the blocks. These blocks are so cute, like an I spy quilt with having the novelties in the middle. They are small blocks though, but I am enjoying this process. It's nice to think when I am done putting the blocks together it will be all done-so much easier to quilt a small block than to try to do a whole top at one time.

I'm not sure why I can't manipulate these pictures, I thought I could move them. Anyway, I tried to post a picture at the end here of the string x quilt top that I recently finished. It ended up being on top. It is fairly small, I guess it's a baby size quilt top but I decided I am done with it. That's as big as it gets. Now I just have to quilt it and get it finished up. I liked doing that one, but I don't think I will do that pattern again. It wasn't hard, just for some reason it wasn't my favorite pattern to do. I do like the scrappy look to it and using up all those leftover scraps! There are so many patterns I want to try though, so I need to finish these quilts up so I can get to them too-

Well I did end up manipulating the pictures a little bit. I switched the order and changed their size but I couldn't move them to be in between text. Oh well, maybe someday I'll figure that out.