A small, quiet women came up to me at a guild meeting with a large bag in her hands. She said “I was told you would take orphan blocks and use them.” I said “ACH! More blocks!” and scared the poor little dear half to death. She backed up in alarm and said “OH, I am so sorry!”. I felt so bad and immediately reached out to her and hugged her. I said “Oh, please forgive me! You don’t know me at all and I have a much worse bark than bite. Please give me your bag and I promise I will make quilts with the blocks.” She looked much relieved, gave me the bag and melted back into the group. The quilt on the cover of this story was made with some of the contents of that bag.
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Here are some close ups of the individual blocks. The work is stunning and I am actually keeping this quilt for myself. I almost never keep one but I will never do the quality of the work shown here and want this. So there!
Now, the next one is on the wall to be quilted. It is much more my style, especially the colors. It grew organically, like all of mine do. The Flying geese here and as the scalloped border on Flowers in Baskets are all made with the “one seam” method and I was able to “cathedral window” the ones in the scallops.
I am off to a quilt show where I am entered into a jelly roll race but I do not expect to win. That’s ok with me. What are you up to?
PS: We cam in 2nd out of 4 teams and won a gift card and a bag of apricot jelly and Hawaiian egg rolls. Jelly and rolls, get it? LOL!!