I was so excited to be going to my first BOM meeting on Friday...until I got there and no one else showed up and there was no meeting. So I just talked with the shop owner and collected more stamps to my card so that next time I go in...I get 4 yards free material!
I went home and started laying out all the extra blocks that Mother had kept from her projects. With a little striping, I'll have enough blocks to do a small, sampler lap quilt. Here is one of the boarders that I'm working on. She had enough of the dark red/white material that I can use it for my striping. The block she made using the Square in a Square method (which I had the pattern & ruler and never tried). The block with the tiny green squares were put together using that method, but had not been cut yet. I got to finally put the ruler to work and I loved it. I'm ready to do a Square in a Square pattern now.
Saturday I went to a quilt shop's new location in Franklin, TN and picked up some neat notions and new books....no material this trip....but oh was I tempted. Then I went clothes shopping with my daughter and had a wonderful time with her. This is where I waited for her to get off work. She was so sweet to bring me something to eat while I waited. I looked at one of my new books and was amazed at the twisted forms of these trees. I bet this will be a wonderful place to sit in the summer, under their mingled shade.
Then I went to my friend, Cindy's house and helped her with some quilt blocks that she was given by her mother-in-law. It's the Maple Leaf pattern, but there was something not right about it. The lower corner block seems to be turned the wrong way. The only problem...her mother-in-law did this on every block (20 in all). I couldn't see how she would make the same mistake so many times and not catch it. So I started playing with the pieces and started to see some other patterns.
How do you like the final outcome? Has anyone else seen a maple leaf and pin-wheel pattern combined?
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