September 14, 2018

I started a quilt-along in February. I’ve made sampler quilts from this company before and I had great plans for this one; each week I would make one block for myself and one block to use as cards. As it turned out, the ones I was making for cards turned out better than the ones I was making for myself so I stopped at block 12 in April.

But this pretty little block was on my design wall (which is the front of the door to my sewing room) and I picked it for Carol.

September 13, 2018

Alex recently got a new pet – a fish. His is much more interesting than this (a Siamese Fighting Fish) but I couldn’t find a pattern that was even remotely possible for me to copy. But around the same time as I was planning my September cards this fish popped up on my calendar and I decided to make it.

In the last few days there have been other fish designs showing up so he may end up with a set of fish!

September 12, 2018

I wasn’t sure until the last minute whether or not I’d make a card for Carola this year. She is a Guild friend who lives just down the hill but she hasn’t been to sewing for most of the summer. She sells at three Farmer’s Markets during the summer and fall so is a busy lady. But after the Guild meeting on Thursday night she asked for a ride to sewing on Tuesday so I made my decision.

I was able to pull half-square triangles from my orphan blocks bag so it was quick to put together, plus I used up lots of scraps.

September 6, 2018

How odd it seems that while I’m in the middle (well almost in the middle) of preparing the blocks for my Farmer’s Daughter quilt I came across this pattern for a Farmer’s Daughter block. How I wish I’d found this before I found the quilt pattern I’m currently working on.

As Jackie is also a Farmer’s Daughter it seemed like a good choice for her.