Squares and circles blocks

Here is a photo of the first 10 blocks on my year long journey of squares and circles blocks.  On December 19, 2015 I was reading Smazoochie's blog (Quilty Folk.blogspot.com I think).  She is venturing on a year long project of making these little 4.5 inch square blocks with an appliqued circle in the block.  I thought that was a great idea, so I decided to participate. 

Well, on January 12, 2016 I remembered this decision.  So I started finding fabrics to make some square/circle units.  I have finished 10 so far.  I have 7 more to go to catch up with today's date of the 17th.

Smazoochie said to grab whatever was on your sewing table and make a unit every day.  I happen to have a stack of 4.5 inch squares and a stack of 3.5 inch squares on my sewing table next to my sewing machine.  I have pulled 17 pairs of fabrics to make my squares/circles units.  I need to make a couple or more units each day for the next few days to catch up and be current. 

Lately I have been looking for a small hand sewing project that I can have at the ready when I am sitting and watching television with DH in the evenings.  I believe this project will do the trick.  My concern is that will I be motivated enough to stick with this project for the entire year?  I also have some embroidery projects in the works so I do have more than enough hand work to keep me busy all year, and that does not include the machine sewing projects, UFOs, that are nagging at me all the time.

This is a new year and I want to be more productive in my sewing/quilting endeavors.  Actually, I want to be more productive in all areas of my life. Yesterday I attended our January LAFS gathering.  I worked on binding a quilt and finished over half of the stitching yesterday, and I finished one more square/circle block, too. 

Happy Quilting