A Quilting Reader's Garden

On my Design Wall

Besides the quilt top I was given (you can read about it on my previous Sunday post), I have these squares on my design wall:

They are log cabin blocks I am working on trying to find a use for all the solid strips of fabric that were donated to St. Ann's. I'm using Jean Wright's Log Cabin Trim Tool. See a video here . This lets you make log cabin blocks fast without cutting all those strips - great for scrappy log cabin. The strips have to be at least 1 1/2" wide; otherwise you can use any width. Check it out. Have 4 more rows to go on these.

What's on your design wall? I'm heading over to Judy's Patchwork Times and Lyn's BOMs Away to see what they're up to.

Stash on Design Wall

At last I have time to post a stash report. While I didn't get much quilting done in the three weeks of getting ready for company and the company, I did try to squeeze in a few minutes a day - sometimes as much as 15 - more like 5 most days, so here is what I have to report:
Yards         For
  .25             binding of a VA quilt.
3.50             of donated fabric to the guild
.25             to finish charity quilt squares
.13             for centers for same quilt
.34             for border for landscape quilt
.25             for back of same landscape
.13             for binding the landscape
1.56              for Nadine's quilt top
.25             of scraps for Holiday quiltlet
.25             for backing of said quiltlet    giving me a grand total of

6.91 yards!   Woohoo! - not bad since my last stash report of 9/30/13.
Here are my numbers:

in 0.0 yds.; out 6.91 yds.

Stash in YTD: in 9.0 yds., out 107.08 yds.

Donated YTD: 51.26 yds

Net for 2013: out 104.99 yds

Now I'd like to humbly ask for your help. A group I belong to has two yard sales twice a year to raise money for our local food pantry. One of the coordinators gave me a quilt top as they know I am a quilter - none of the other six are that was donated to the group. Anyway - here it is - measures around 72 by 82":

The back of the top is lined with flannel - looks like they added the flannel before they put the squares together - maybe to stabilize the squares (?). Most of the fabric looks and feels like cotton - some maybe feed sacks. My questions are: Would you look at the following photos and guess what decade these are from? Also I want to use these to put together a quilt from that decade so could you also suggest a quilt block to use. Your comments will be greatly appreciated!

I'm linking to Judy's Stash Report at Patchwork Times. Visit and see how others are doing.

Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival!

Amy is hosting another Blogger's Quilt Festival. This is one of my favorite online shows. So many beautiful quilts - so many talented quilters. Mine is so beginner compared to the beauties you will see, however I feel it is important that we participate, so I'm entering the quilt I quilted for my DIL from all her Ralph's T-Shirts. I used the 20" blocks of the quilt to practice during SewCalGal's 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge . That was a great project - learned so much!

Without further ado -