Design Wall Monday-May 29, 2017 Memorial Day

In honor of Memorial Day where we pause and pay our resepcts to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country this is a short video from Ft. Indiantown Gap National Cemetary in Annville PA.  My Father and his 2 brothers and a sister were all in WWII. When visiting any of the National Cemetaries it is a sobering time. We were fortuante in that all of the family returned from WWII and the ones since then. My Father is now buried here as well as other family members. This was from their ceremony yesterday. Hopefully one day we will be in PA for the Memorial Day Ceremony

In Honor of Memorial Day





Now on to quilting!


We got back to Round Rock middle of last week. Took a few days but I finally got back to my Arkansas Crossroads blocks.

The X blocks are sewn

Here 2 blocks laid out to get an idea

On Saturday I put it on the design wall. And that is where it has been patiently waiting for the next step! I do need to move a few blocks around, although I am not sure it would really matter! There is a lot going on!

The outer border blocks are made (half an X) for the outer peaks.

Will play with those on the design wall today. And while I was at Honey Bee (LQS) saw the perfect wide backing. Bought enough for 2 as I have many more 2.5 inch squares to use. The quilt used 404!

This next one will be sewn as leaders and enders. Have a lot of other things to work on too. But it was the perfect projet to take along on our trip and work on in the room at night!

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Design Wall Monday-May 22, 2017

Once again I have not been posting much. Not sure why, just not doing it!  But I have been getting some sewing in.

We are once again at Rockport Texas for a few days. This time my machine made the trip as well. Also brought along a container of 2.5 inch squares and strips. Decided to work on Arkansas Crossroads. A great scrap quilt. My scraps range the gamut from batiks, kids, brights, you guessed it everything. The 16 patches are that-everything. This is th first five done.

Now all 19 are done. Ended up doing an extra! and the crossroad blocks are also done; 68 of those.Still need to do the border blocks. Glad I decided to toss in some fabric for background just in case I got the 16 patches done. That would have meant another trip to the quilt shop in town.Yes, another, we stopped there on Friday!

Jeanne, the owner of Golden Needles and Quilt Shop wanted a picture of the girls! It is a great little shop. Lots of coastal fabrics which we don't get at home.

We spend most of the days checking out the birding sites and back roads going through the flats. Galen gets lots of pictures. At night he is downloading his pictures from the day, getting them sorted, I'D and posted on the various groups. Good time for me to sew.

My stack of blocks. The ones with the clips are the 68. 4.5 background block with 2.5 sqs sewn on 2 opposite corners, They are not trimmed and pressed yet. Maybe tonight.

2 old quilts always travel with us for the bed so the girls can be on top

Tiki has a favorite toy-her buffalo. It also made the trip.

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Design Wall Monday - May 1, 2017

Not much to report this week. I made 2 more blocks for the Canada lotto on QWC. So now I have 2 sets completed. Hope to get another one done but that depends on the usual-time and other commitments!

 I was  putting more fabric away and kept finding cute prints for the bow tie blocks for the Quilted with Love group. Started to lay them a side, then thought maybe I should go a head and cut the pieces. Of course, now they are cut they might get lost, guess I will go a head and sew the blocks. 52 on the wall right now! They are fun to make!

Galen was away all weekend on a birding get together near Anahuac, TX. Not the greatest of weekends weather wise but they did see birds and other wildlife. It was very windy and the elevation may be 5 ft above sea level. Strong winds coming in off the gulf closed a few roads to them-covered with water. But they had a good time. He leaves tomorrow for PA for the annual Let's spray the weeds on the farm up there. It is in a PA conservation program. 

Yes, I plan on sewing while he is away. I am so far behind on some of the BOM I have been saving that I need to get busy! Plus I still need to put for stuff away and reorganize.

Most of all I should get my car back tomorrow!

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