A Quilting Reader's Garden

Applique Tuesday!

I've had the kids an extra day, so a little behind - but what else is new. Anyway, I do have some applique to share with you. Here's a peek at the quiltlet I'm putting together for our Guild's Holiday exchange.

It has most of the applique on it than just the strip of red fabric of last week. I had to resize it. LOL, my algebra teacher would be proud of me.

How are you doing on your project? Would love to see your eye candy, applique or otherwise, a future quilt or even an old one - all new to me! Linky below.

I'm linking over to Esther's WOW and Connie's Linky Tuesday. See you there!

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!