Bibliostone, thank you for my wonderful star block! Love your heart block for Hav as well.

Terriamn, it's great that you found your rabbit fabric and that you are enjoying your trip! If you haven't tried collard greens, they're a must.

Moonwork, beautiful nails. Your a walking advertisement for your granddaughter. Your other granddaughter will be thrilled to have you there.

Hope to quilt at least one of my little fish tops today. Enjoy your day.

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Yes Sewbiz we have spent the last 2 days in the Smokey Mountains. Incredibly gorgeous so glad dh likes to drive because all the curves in the roads would totally freak me out.

Biblestone great blocks

Moon i am going to make you a different block. the title of the one I made was called Star of something but after looking at it in the gallery it doesn’t look like a star to me

Pretty blocks, B'stone!

Terri, we love the Smokies! We camped there many times when our children were young. Were there many wildflowers this time of year?

I'm still working on quilting my BurgSur. I thought I was done with the main part, but then I found a row of blocks I'd skipped over.... The quilting pattern is the same on each block, but it goes pretty fast. Then I will do something simple in all of the sashing pieces and I'll be DONE! Can't wait to show y'all.

I have pulled out my lion fabric and am planning a block with it, but I don't have any dark navy, or at least I haven't found it yet. I might have to go shopping (oh no!). That lion fabric was one of the first Cotton and Steel fabrics, from before their best designers left and formed Rifle Paper Company. The early designs were a bit 'edgier' than the current offerings. I got the lion fabric just as it was going out of print.

Yes Sewbiz the wildflowers were blooming profusely, their were fields filled with them.


Can’t wait to see your Bur Sur.

I think we stopped at 5 different quilt shops but it wasn’t as much fun as usual. I really tried to buy brown on browns only. My eyes and fingers did seem to have a mind of their own now and then so there are some pretty things to play with when we get home

One from yesterday.... made for Hav4boys.

I will be away for a day. Off to Purdue for my granddaughter's graduation tomorrow morning. See ya'll Friday

Oh the Smokies! Sounds like a wonderful trip. And traveling out West too. All the great things to see. Y'all travel safely and have lots of fun.

WMUTeach - I had two of your baggies of Civil War reproduction fabric to work with so I went looking for my muslin. LOL. I also thought your flowers could use some pollinators, so I added some bees.

Barbara Brackman's "Civil War Sampler, 50 Quilt Blocks with Stories from History", was at my local quilt shop this week. It's a wonderful book, well researched, with stories from diaries, journals, newspapers, etc., Ms. Brackman is pretty famous for her work as a quilt historian. Many of the patterns in this book were reprinted in the 1920s and 30s and have been known by several names. What I know as Churn Dash she names Lincoln's Platform, with a story from Lincoln's inauguration. The second block is called Comfort Quilt and she references Dorothea Dix and her work in Civil War hospitals. I hope you like them.

SewBizGirl - Here's a block using your whales. It's simple, I know, but I hope you like the mix of batiks.

I LOVE it!! It's beautiful and you've shown the whales very well. Thank you so much, A2P!

WMUT, love your shooflys!