Poodles and Quilts

I have been keeping busy and actually getting a little sewing accomplished. The secret quilt I have been working on is at the border stage. That is great progress as the on-point blocks were giving me some trouble! But I think I can turn it over to my quilting friend early next week! Several of us saved a quilt along pattern last year from  https://justquiltin.wordpress.com/ It is   Barn Dance . One of my friends is off this week from school so we decided to start it.                                                         If you don't follow justquiltin with Denise check out the link above this picture. She has lots of fun patterns As you see it is 4 different size blocks. We decided to make the 6 inch first as that was the blocks needed then work our way up.  My 37 blocks. Next the 12 inch blocks ...

I was able to get back to sewing this past week. Decided this was the perfect pattern to get me sewing again. 12 FQS from dark to light and 1 yard for the stars. Got into my stash of batiks                                                                                                                   the line up! my test block And my finished top! I am working on another quilt top now but can't show it. The wrong person could see it and that would spoil the gift! Feels good to get back to piecing again. I also wanted to freeze pumpkin this Fall for pies.   Enough for 20 pies. Mom's recipe makes 2 pies. Hoping to get cabbage yet so I ca...

It was a busy month of binding quilts for Quilts of Compassion. The Scrappy Courthouse Steps was the last to be bound. This is a picture of the 8 quilts I sent off this time. 6 by my friend Wendy and 2 more from me. Got them sent on Oct. 24th as we were leaving on the 26th for South Texas-Rio Grande Valley. Janice posted a picture earlier this week of over 1000 quilts that had been collected and now they have 1900 packed and ready to make the trip to SE Texas.  They will be picking up more on the way. Hopefully these will bring a smile to the recipients. My husband is into taking pictures of birds, butterflies and dragon flies and the Valley is known as a good place for that very thing. We spent several days in Pharr, Texas and then on to Mission, Texas. These are all close to McAllen. Went to Santa Anna Wildlife Refuge, The World Butterfly Center and Bensten State Park. The park is strictly for viewing birds etc. No cars in the park. Lots of blinds and wa...