Quilters! Dozens and dozens of you bought the Comfort & Joy pattern and there’s one completed block in the link box! I’m doing it, with or without you, but if you bought the pattern, you must’ve intended to do it. There’s still time in January to get the first block done. Trying to catch up will be hard so please don’t get behind if you want to do this project.
I’ve made two blocks today. It’s just the getting started that’s hard! Simple nine patches, a few flying geese and a few half square triangles . . that’s all the piecing that you have to do. You can do this!
Comfort & Joy Block 1 Completed
If you don’t get the pattern out and get your blocks done, this is going to be like those other patterns you’ve collected and never made! Get it done! 
i love this so far! am sad i have not gotten this pattern to work alongside you all. this is working up cute!!! i have so many irons in the fire right now anyway with all i am working on, but i know that each month i am going to look longingly from the sidelines and turn green with envy….sigh.
The hard part for me is going through scraps, finding ones I like, and cutting them the right size. It isn’t the sewing at all! (Which of course you know!) So I’m working on gathering fabrics for the half square triangles.
Yes Mother!
Now you’ve got me motivated! Is it too late to get the pattern?
I’ve ordered my background fabric but it won’t arrive until June! So for now I’m just watching everyone else’s color selections and concentrating on completing the current project I have going (Rosewood Cottage.)
Yep, going to be a month behind all year. =)
I am not able to post during the day but I do have the first section done. Will post my link tonight.
Live in CA and am doing this quilt along with a TN friend.
I’m doing needle turn applique. Jan Patek has a good 4 part lesson on needle turn on her blog. Looking forward to Feb.
LOL. I thought you had forgotten about this. I was waiting for you to post around the 24th. Will need to get my skates on now have all the requirements needed so just need to get the block happening. Plus I have decided to do the ‘Back to Square One’ Mystery as well. Only just received my fabric for this so will need to get cracking on both now.
I’m just finishing up Maggie Sefton’s knit series. I don’t usually read mysteries but I’m enjoying these characters and how they grow through the series. I’m enjoying borrowing books from the library on my Nook…but with over 200 books of my own to read from the Friends sales at the local library I alternate between my e-book and real book in my hands all the time. I tend to enjoy large books like Diana Giabaldon so having an e-book is handly when leaving the house..and to be able to knit while reading.
I have noticed that most of the houses face right and yours face left. Is the pattern interchangeable?
I talked about that in the previous post.
I was inspired by you to complete my own Comfort and Joy. I bought the pattern in 2011 and it sat and sat because it intimidated me (much to Pat’s dismay). 2013 is the year and I am making great progress. Thank you, Judy and Pat
The tall tree with the two birds…..needs to be cut 16 1/2″ long,,,not the 14 1/2″ the blue pattern area shows.. No errata mentioned on Silver Thimble Pattern Co’s site…..I’m working ahead on some of these blocks.