I finished the paper pieced chicken quilt that I won earlier this year.  I used every chicken too, on front and on the back.  I hope you remember which ones you made.  Elizabeth Clark suggested I pair them with the churn dash which sounded pretty “farmish” so I make all the churn dashes with a color wheel in hand, constantly referencing the colors to be sure they were compatible. The piano key border is made up of all the leftover...

Here are my four Spokes blocks for May for donation.  These were easy, festive and very fun to make.  I made them this afternoon up in Elizabeth’s sewing room. One construction tip that helped me: when inserting the first pieced bar into the cut square, crease the center of the pieced bar and the triangle half of the square and match the creased centers.  That makes it much easier to insert the pieced bars in the correct...

Four Cactus pot blocks were mailed today to Kathie, they should arrive on Monday. Enjoy!

The last broken dishes arrived today from Margaret across the oceans.  Thank you Margaret and everyone, let the fun begin.

Another envelope arrived of beautiful Broken Dishes blocks, from Kate in the UK.  Thank you Kate, they are lovely.  Just one more package to go, and I’ll be at the design wall.

More packages of broken dishes in the mail today from Celine from the UK, Julie P, Karen B. (thanks for the variation information) , and Laura R.  They are all so lovely and different, I’ve long wanted to do a blue and white quilt so this is exciting.  Thank you all.

More broken dishes in the mailbox today from Cathy K, Kristin and Michelle from Canada (thanks for the cute quilting label to). Many thanks!

My mailbox was full of broken dishes this week from Kathleen, Marianne, Nann, Robin and Teresa.  They are beautiful and inspiring…thanks so much.

Here are my four cactus blocks for donation.  Great pattern, once the pieces are cut, it goes together pretty...

Here’s my first cactus block for donation.  I found that the pattern instructions for the background rectangles were too small.  I had to make them 2.5 x 4.5 vs what the pattern called for-2 x 3.5 then everything went together well. With five week old twins in the house my other donation blocks will come straggling in over the month as I get a spare hour to work on them....

I mailed four Dutchmen Puzzles yesterday off to Laura. Have fun with them.

Here are my four Broken Dishes blocks for March.  The first one I did using Thangles and what a job it was taking the papers out, the other three I used Sophies method of constructing eight at once and it was a breeze.