Swooning Along In My Own Way

After stitching up this little guy the other night I was itching to continue cross stitching yesterday. I thought that a x-stitch that looked like a quilt would be really fun, but I had other things I needed to work on so I wrote down my idea & went on with my work.

A few hours later the light bulb switched on!

Swoon!

Have you seen the Swoon-along going on over at Flickr? It is a gorgeous block and I want to play along, but I have too many other quilts in progress to justify starting yet another one.

So instead I pulled out my sketchbook and my crayons, laid out the block and got to stitching.

I even drew up a simple pattern for a larger block.

Are you Swooning? How’s your progress coming along?

Edit: The very lovely & talented Camille Roskelley, Swoon block designer, was kind enough to allow me to share my chart/pattern. So be on the lookout for it later this month.

Edit2: With the first edit all of a sudden the post went wonky, stole my photos, & shared them as html instead. I’m crossing my fingers that this rewrite works!