Who's In for Cheddar?

I am loving this new book -

A Path to the Civil War: 

 Aurelia's Journey Quilt.

Have you gals seen this book? 

So full of history and information.

I love the history part

of the book as much as the quilt blocks.

And as much as I love the colors! 

The colors are to gush over!

(hear me color gushing?!)

I'm hoping to have the top made by

April 12th, 2011 -

this date marks the

150th anniversary of

the start of the Civil War.

The book has 28- twelve inch blocks

and 16- nine inch blocks.

There are about 12 weeks between now and the 12th of April...

Sooo...

that's only 4.5 blocks a week for 10 weeks,

and two weeks for sashing and borders.

Sounds do-able, don't you think?

Are you in???

Let me know if you are going to work on this quilt, also.

(I'm thinking I may have a giveaway

of some of the Marcus fabrics that were used in making this quilt.)