I haven’t updated the 1930’s progress since June! Yikes! We did one more 6″ block during that month and then spent the next several weeks finishing the tops of “America the Beautiful”, our other group project . #26 is called Pieced Basket #1 and is just a diagonal basket with flowers in it and very appropriate for June. It features a blue and red basket with light blue flowers and we followed the pattern color scheme. [Read more…] about Ode to the 1930’s Blocks #26-27
2016 World Reading Challenge wrap-up
2016 World Reading Challenge
Hosted by Dorothee at life is a journey, the idea of this reading challenge is to explore the world by books from different continents and countries. To join the challenge, select and read seven books, one book from each continent. I have finished up this challenge, and although all the authors weren’t native to the continents, the books gave good introductions to each continent.
–Africa: Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody #4), Elizabeth Peters (this is a historical mystery series about archaeologists, but the author spent considerable time digging in Africa and gives a lot of historical and geographical information in each novel)
– Asia: The Piano Teacher, Janice Y.K Lee (set in Hong Kong by a Hong Kong author)
– Australia/Ozeania: Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta (set in Australia by an Australian author)
– Europe: The Revolving Door of Life (44 Scotland Street #10), Alexander McCall Smith (set in Scotland by a Scottish author)
– North America: Anne’s House of Dreams (Anne #5), L.M. Montgomery (set in Canada by a Canadian author)
– South America: The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon, Robert Whitaker (nonfiction book by an author who lived in Ecuador)
– Antarctica (or a book with a journey from one continent to another): Shackleton’s Stowaway, Victoria McKernan (YA historical novel based on fact and well-researched)
2016 Color Coded Challenge wrap-up
This challenge is hosted by Bev at My Reader’s Block.
2016 Color Coded Challenge
Here are the rules:
- Blue: Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Maggie Stiefvater
- Red: Bloodroot (China Bayles #10), Susan Wittig Albert
- Yellow: Yellow Brick War (Dorothy Must Die, #3), Danielle Paige
- Green: Anne of Green Gables (Anne #1), L.M. Montgomery
- Brown: Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
- Black: The Raven King (Raven Cycle #4), Maggie Stiefvater
- White: Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky, Sandra Dallas
- any other color in the title/on the cover: Tales from Silver Lands, Charles J. Finger
- word that implies color: Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7), L.M. Montgomery
America the Beautiful quilt top finished
We added the borders and finished the quilt tops. They are going to be revisited next spring when we piece the backs and get them quilted and they will be all ready to show in the Alpine Days Quilt Show in August! Look at us being so prepared!
We are very happy with our work and continually amazed at how different the three tops ended up. So here they are: [Read more…] about America the Beautiful quilt top finished
Finishes: BYU and Beach Umbrellas
I have several quilts in various stages of production but September brought two finishes which makes me very happy. For Scott’s birthday in February I gave him the kit for the BYU quilt, purchased from the Fabric Mill in Orem. I had seen that kit several times when visiting that store and thought it would be a good lap quilt for Scott. When they had all their kits on sale in February, I gave in to temptation. So I worked on the cutting and piecing during the summer and let Scott pick the layout of the blocks. Once they were sewed together he chose the backing which I interrupted with a vertical and horizontal row of leftover blocks. Then he went with me to Just Sew in Highland and chose the blue thread and machine quilting pattern of loops and swirls. I attached the binding just before we left for Arizona at the beginning of September and sewed in the car so that we could do a photo shoot in Phoenix and at Montezuma’s Well. [Read more…] about Finishes: BYU and Beach Umbrellas