We have rain and wind. The sun is keeping away. I managed two in the last minutes.

I promise.  This will be the last one … unless I come across something else that I find interesting enough that I can’t resist sharing 🙂 This Baby Sailboat quilt came from a Leisure Arts Publication, Quick Method – Classic Blue Quilts.  It’s quite old, but I found some copies online on eBay … and I wouldn’t be surprised to still see it on shelves at Jo-Ann. I think there’s a couple of interesting design...

Lately, whenever I am looking for something else, I see sail boat/tall ships quilts. These two are from the book Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum. The sailboat block in both quilts is the same (a shorter version of this month’s lotto block) which makes the contrast between the two quilts even more interesting–one seems to lean toward the Gees Bend style, the other feels purely Amish.     Our winners this...

I was flipping through a book looking for something else, when I saw this quilt … and had to share. These blocks are wider  than ours, but similar enough that I think you can easily see how effective this quilt design is … with plain sashing and borders.  If you had a set of our lotto blocks, you could choose whether to go white or blue for that sashing and borders. I think the reverse blocks (whichever way) would give this classic...

If you made blocks in May, you should have received an email message from  me with the mailing info for the Trio of Geese Blocks. Please take a quick look to make sure that the number of block I have attributed to you is correct and let me know ASAP if you find an error. Winners, please also check that your name and address at the top of the page are correct–even though you all individually confirmed your addresses with me. Mistakes can happen...

Seriously … I keep seeing our blocks everywhere. This one was at a quilt shop (and Bernina dealer) in Albuquerque. It’s called Alpine Forest. I took my Bernina back to the shop after talking with someone in their booth at the Fiber Arts Fiesta over the weekend.  It took me more than two hours to drive there and back.  The mechanic identified and fixed the problem at the counter in less than a minute.  Let’s hope this fix lasts...

Angie shared a link to these blocks in a comment and I thought it was worth sharing in a post of it’s own. It came from Gail Bong Quilts Too   If you added a 3 1/2 inch by 9 1/2 inch rectangle to the left side of our May block to create a 9-inch (finished size) square, then put four of them together to form blocks like these, you’d make an 18 inch version of this block, which would have all the dark geese in the center and the...

Maybe it’s because it’s this month block.  I keep noticing Flying Geese in quilts and quilt blocks everywhere. Here’s a couple more. This is one of the Random Quilt-a-Long blocks that I found on the Blooming Workshop blog. These blocks at 6 inches, square, but If you started with two of this month’s lotto blocks to make a block like the one on the right, you’d end up with a big 18 inch heart.  I think one of those...

Using 6 of our blocks, you could make an 18-inch square quilt like this one: Directions for this quilt which is slightly smaller, can be found on the Creative Bug blog, here: Charming Geese Mini...

Wow, can’t believe I won some of these blocks. I only had a chance to make one this month and plus, I just won a couple months ago, so I figured there was no likelihood at all. But I have to say, I’m so thrilled.  For one thing, I love this block and have been hoping to have time to make some for myself – now I won’t have to (might need to  make a few to even out the numbers but not a whole quilt worth). For another...

Gail gets 44 blocks Kathleen gets 44 blocks Kim also gets 44 blocks and Kate gets 43 blocks. Congratulations all! Ginny

Megan emailed me to share how she used this month’s Bird Block to make a couple flags (and made some more for a future project of her own).   These were made for To Boston with Love, an effort organized by the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild which has caught fire across the blogiverse. The dimensions are slightly shorter than our 6 by 9-inch blocks, but I think a couple would make great candidates for this effort. You can find more...