Quilt News! HourGlass Blocks Medallion Quilt Top Finish, My BrambleBlooms 2 Challenge Quilt Top Piecing Borders, Kona Cotton Solids by Robert Kaufman, Carloyn Forster's New Book

Borders have been pieced onto my BB2 Four Tiles with Borders quilt top and more borders and corner blocks to be added.

My sewing machine and I have been busy piecing borders and blocks...

My small Hourglass Blocks Medallion with String Borders quilt top finish, 15" x 15".

 

This is Thanksgiving week and I'm thankful for our many blessings! Last week we experienced a wind storm or as the media likes to call it a 'bomb cyclone', which is to say an intense wind storm. Our electricity was out for 3 days in our area and longer for surrounding areas. Big trees and power lines were downed. We had no heat, no internet, and no way to cook. Deciding to drive to another town in hopes of finding warmth and warm food, we found blocked roads and detours and backed up traffic, yes, other people were trying to find the same things. The traffic lights weren't working so it was slow going, we all had to stop and take our turn crossing the intersections. It was a unique experience. But our local power company and police worked hard to keep everyone safe and get the trees off the road and the power lines up and running again. I'm thankful for all their dedicated, hard work!

And now this week I've slowly started piecing again some borders and blocks adding to several projects. I'm slowing down to get ready (baking pies!) for celebrating Thanksgiving this Thursday.

In cutting and piecing blocks and borders I've been using Kona Cotton Solids by Robert Kaufman; Banana Pepper, Mango and Glacier to name just a few. If I don't have a big enough variety of Kona Cotton Solids to choose from I get anxious. I like to use a mix of prints, batiks and solids in my projects, kind of like a recipe.

I've been reading through and I highly recommend, Carolyn Forster's new book String Quilts. She has packed so much practical quilt knowledge in her new book it's amazing and Search Press, the publishers, have done a fabulous job with her new book.

That, Quilt Friends, is the quilt news from the valley where we are so thankful for our many blessings!

I'll be by to visit!