Idaho Square Dance!

When Bonnie Hunter was in town last spring, I attended 

her workshop for Cathedral Stars.  Next to my machine I had a pile of 1 1/2" square blocks as leader/enders 

to make 4 patches...I had no idea what I would use them for but I wanted to use up the fabric, well Bonnie piped up and said....

"Oh! You could make a Idaho Square Dance blocks!"

So thats how this quilt came to be!!  So far, I have 35 blocks...

not near big enough!

I sashed them with a pretty light green/white pin dot fabric and added 2" squares as cornerstones.....now there are 

only 4 more rows to go to make it nice and big!

Yippee! Another Bonnie Quilt for ME!!

See? There she is with those little squares at my machine!

Fine things...Aunt Georgia #1

A coworker and friend of mine recently lost her 

Great Aunt.  Her name was Aunt Georgia, she was a wonderful woman and she liked to sew!

Sounds like someone who I would have just loved also!

When my friend went down for her funeral she came home with some fine things that belonged to her Aunt Georgia

which included some hand pieced quilt blocks! 

She asked if I would make them into quilts for a couple of her loved ones, of course!  So, this is the first quilt I got completed

for her..its for Aunt Georgias newest Great Grandson Jax.  

He was born in August.

The center block was hand stitched by Georgia...I used fusible web to attach it to some coordinating fabric and then did some hand stitching on it with DMC floss..including

the babys name and birth date.  

Koi kept me company while I hand sewed it down.  

Shes such a sweet kitty!

The completed center of the quilt....

And the finished product!  

My coworker Laurie picked out all of the 

fabrics, she has a great eye for color...I just love it and so did she....I was just so happy to do something and preserve these

beautiful blocks made by a beautiful lady!

The best part of all is that when Jaxs mom received the quilt she was so surprised and cried, she thought that her Aunt Georgia had made it for her! We explained that the center WAS made by her and thats why we finished it in a 

quilt for her new sweet baby!!

Such a fun project!  Smiles all around!!

RSC Saturday

Its Rainbow Scrap Challenge Saturday once 

again, this week I have made two Scrap Jar Stars in 

beautiful Orange, one of my favorite colors!

Linking up with Angela over at 

SoScrappy!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrappy Trip Bee!!!!

3 times a year I sign up for the 

Scrappy Trip Bee over on Flickr....

I love it!!

You get assigned a "Hive" and you make 5 blocks 

for other ladies in the colors of their choice using Bonnie Hunters free tutorial for her Scrappy Trip Quilt.  In turn, you

get 5 blocks in your color choice....

AWESOME!!

Here are my blocks for my hive mates....

Tera above requested scrappy with a dark red center line....

Britta requested shades of green, beautiful!!

Lynn asked for scrappy with a Red center line....

Charlotte requested Brights! LOVE!

Sandra asked for Orange, neutrals and Aqua...

I love everyones choices, mine are all done in 

purples, black on whites, white on blacks, text prints and tone on tones....after this round I should have enough to finish

up my quilt..Yippee!!

Thanks for stopping by my little blog today!

Septembers Block Lotto!

Each month over at the Block Lotto, there is a certain 

block that you can make and enter to win a

bunch more to make into a quilt! 

Its awesome, if you win you get tons of squishy mail, its

like Christmas!!  Whoop Whoop!!

This months block is this cute tulip block, I made 5 of

them to enter to win....

Its so fun to receive a bunch of beautiful blocks in the 

mail from all over the world with so many different

fabric combos!!

I hope I win this month!!!

Check it out over at 

www.blocklotto.com

RSC Saturday!

Its Rainbow Scrap Challenge Saturday!  

This months color is Orange, one of my favorites...I just 

love the "pop" that Orange adds to quilts, especially 

scrappy ones!!!

Heres my two Wonky Orange Stars for September....

LOVE THEM!

Linking up with Angela over at 

SoScrappy !!

Thanks for stopping by!

Itty Bitty Blocks

Now anybody that reads my blog knows that I am just 

a little bit whacked in the head when it comes to 

scrappy piecing! 

This is my second batch of 15 Itty Bitty Blocks for August

with Quilty Pleasures Blogs pattern each month.  

I made 15 already but did them in a complete rainbow, totally fun but not in the actual style that I should (wink!)

have done them. 

OOPS!!  

CALL THE QUILT POLICE!!

Really? IS there a wrong way to do it? Idk!

So here are my half light/half colored Itty Bitty Log Cabins...

Here are a couple of my favorites...
Buttons!!

Polka Dots!!

A Geisha!!  

Ever read that book "Memoirs of a Geisha"??

Awesome Book!

More Polka Dots!

So theres two rows for August instead of just one.  

Bring on Septembers block!