It is Bloggers Quilt Festival time again & I entered a quilt that is a variation on a block we lottoed in ?2011? so Sophie suggested I do a write-up for here.  I call the block 8:56 (4 to 9), but in Block Lotto-land it is D4P or disappearing 4-patch. For this quilt I sized up the blocks (6.5″ strips to make the 4-patches 12.5″ then sliced & flipped for a final block size of 11″.5 unfinished/11″ finished).  Each...

My lone star chain left Florida for Germany yesterday.  I had fantasized about posting pics of this months blocks but…I have not made any yet.

I wanted to get this one Star Chain posted while my computer was still letting me upload photos… I hope to make more but for now, this is just one from mb. in Florida to donate please....

I realize this picture looks like four double chevrons (OKay it is four double chevrons) but I realized afterwards that two of them are actually from the same fabric WHOOPS!  Specifically that chevron fabric (chevrons for the double chevrons, I am hilarious in my own head; apparently I found this especially funny…twice). Please put these down as three to donate. But if you want to make a note that mine need to go to two different winners...

I fully intend to make some stripes for this month, but the best laid plans & all that. So. In the meantime 3 orphans from April...

My one sad boomer is off to Margaret & I am including his slightly smaller brother. Maybe he can help hold the quilt label? Margaret:  ever since I wrote your address on the envelope, I have had a ridiculous song stuck in my head:  here we are in New South Wales, shearing sheep as big as whales, something something something, & hides as tough as rusty nails”. I  know this is crazy but I don’t suppose you now what the...

When my husband saw this block & then the virtual quilt preview he really liked them. So now I must win!  I expect I will make many more, but here is my first oak...

I know it looks like two, I tried to make two but somehow one of them is off. It’s just smaller all around, shorter & thinner. Less than 1/2 an inch but you can really see the difference. So just one from mb. in FLA, to donate please.  The guy in green kitty-cat romper.  If it’s OKay he is n a romper I just thought of that.  If it isn’t, let me know & I will give him new...

Yesterday I mailed my three stars to whomever thy were supposed to go to (in ?Dallas? I think?), & then promptly tossed the mailing list.  I’m sorry.  They are on the way, I promise.

The April 2013 Birds segued perfectly with the project I was working on- a block swap oh-so-loosely based on the Bird Trap quilt in the Belger Arts Center collection.  The completed quilt has been boxed & shipped to QuiltFest in Jacksonville but I had to do some pre-show sharing. Here are the birds in detail.  Some of them, anyhow.     & this is the whole megillah.  ...

I plan to make the full compliment but just in case here are my three Tall Stars for...

I had hoped to make a complete set of nine, but I am traveling next week & won’t be back in time to submit any more, so this is it. My grand total for July will be...