Friendship Block

Another block from the Quilt In A Day book Egg Money Quilts by Eleanor Burns. This one is called Friendship Block and is made so that the maker's friends could sign the open spaces around the block. It was easier to do than it looks! This quilt will be a sampler when it is done. I really like doing samplers--gives you a taste of different blocks and if you don't like it, you only have to do one of them!

We made a quick trip to Austin and back over Tuesday and Wednesday to help take care of our grandboys while our son-in-law had surgery. Our daughter wanted us there "just-in-case" and of course we were glad to be of help! Son-in-law came through the surgery just great and for that we were so thankful. And we had a wonderful visit with the grandboys--Nathan, age 2 in October has so many words now and it's so fun to hear him say them. Evan, age 5 has started reading lots of words and surprised me with just how large his vocabulary really is--we were working on a "work-book" together and he could read most of the directions himself--what fun! I remember his mother reading at an early age, so it didn't surprise me at all!! What a joy all our grandchildren are--we are so blessed to have all 4 of them!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Fort Worth , Texas Quilt Show

Saturday, dear friend Debi, my hubby Maynard and I went to the Fort Worth Quilt Show and what a great time we had! The quilts were pretty and we had such a good time looking and SHOPPING at all the vendors. At Noon time, our friend Sally, joined us for while and we had fun visiting and looking some more! The first picture shows just how much fun I had with my saved up $$$--we ran across one booth with $1.00 Fat Quarters and we visted there twice! Put together a lot of FQs there for Yellow Brick Roads for Project Linus quilts! What fun that was! One of the jelly rolls shown here is from the Grand Opening today of Blue Ribbon Quilt Shoppe in Wylie. They have opened a cute shop in downtown and if anyone is in the area it's a can't miss on your agenda!

Debi, dear friend that she is, didn't want to miss my birthday, ( end of October) so she brought me an early gift --she is so generous and spoils me (and I love it!!!!) Isn't that the cutest pin cushion?! and I love the FQs--"Ginger Blossoms" and the charm squares are called "Quilt Diva!" How cute is that?! Thank you so much Debi--I love everything!

Busy, Busy weekend, but oh so much fun!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Three Eleanor Burns Blocks

Did you ever think you just couldn't do something and it turns out you could? Well, that's the way I was about these blocks from Eleanor Burns--even though I had done the Dresden Plate before and knew that I could do it, I put it off ---as we are prone to do when we wonder if we can really do something or not!!!! Turns out if you follow her steps completely and thoroughly in her books (the one I'm using is Egg Money Quilts) the blocks will turn out! She even gives you some room to make mistakes and trim the blocks down to size!! How about that?! I am really liking the way she does her blocks!!!!! I'm a believer!!! The blocks are called (from the top down) Garden Walk, Dresden Plate, and Christian Cross. They will be part of a small sampler.

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Snow Blooms Top Finished!

The first picture shows how Snow Blooms was sewn together on the diagonal--took some paying attention to what was where and all that! But didn't have to do too much frog stitching to get it finished! The second picture shows it all finished -- I decided not to put a border on it, so it wouldn't get to awfully big for Project Linus. At least for the guidelines that I have!

The big storm Ike is upon us and it is raining--we are in North Texas and feeling some of it's effects--some rain and wind. Nothing like they got down in Galveston and Houston areas though. Thinking about all those people down there!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Time for more Project Linus Quilts!

Here are 2 more quilts for Project Linus--the first one is Whimsy Kitties and the second one is Boxed Stars. The first one is a Yellow Brick Road (my favorite pattern of all time) and the second one is Boxy Stars from Quiltville! Quiltville is a great site, with all kinds of patterns that Bonnie so generously shares. She is also an author and her book will be out soon--you can pre-order it on her website. (Not affiliated, just a happy camper, yada yada.....)

I have several rows of Snow Blooms sewn together on the diagonal, so it takes more thinking to put together! It looks real good though so I'm glad about that!

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan

Snow Blooms

Here are the blocks all ready to put together into a quilt made from the quilt line called "Snow Blooms."---Nine Patches, Snowballs blocks and Setting Triangles with a square sewn diagonally across the 90 degree corner. The blocks will be set on the diagonal. Will be quite a puzzle to put together, but will be fun to do, I think. Thanks to my friend, Debi for giving me this jelly roll of fabric!!!!!

I've also been doing a lot of reading these days--decided to go back through and read the Bennie Harper series of mystery books by Earlene Fowler. Each book is the name of a quilt block and they are a fun read.

My favorite quilt store, Quilt Mercantile in Celeste, Texas has added on and is having a grand opening on Saturday--just my luck we will be out of town, but I'll be celebrating in spirit with them. They added half as much space on as they have now and I think it's really going to be nice. So glad to see them growing and getting bigger! They are such friendly, helpful owners.

Let quilting help you make someone smile!

Jan