My birthday has come and gone and I still have to share my birthday blocks. For the Birthday Block exchange with my Sloanie friends I decided on a scrappy bento box. I have wanted to make a quilt with this block for over 10 years and decided this was my chance. I asked for the blocks to be made in Christmas colors – not necessarily Christmas fabrics (but that would be fun!) and to use Pat Sloan fabric if they had some.


This is the tutorial I asked people to use  – Scrappy Bento Box Block Tutorial

my birthday blocks

Here are my colorful happy blocks so far! 



dianna block



This one arrived after the group photo shoot;) I love the tree fabric, the elves and the fun train track prints.


I plan to make more blocks to make myself a small lap quilt for Christmas. It’s on my list to quilt in November – should give me lots of time to make more blocks!



joyful blooms outside

The giveaway celebrating my 7 year blog anniversary
 is still open until Tuesday, March 1.
Click over to this post and leave a comment 
to win a copy of the magazine
my quilt Joyful Blooms is published in!







With Joy,


Sarah V


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