My Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop Date is Here!

Hello, it's the 3rd day of the Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop. My turn to show you the book I pulled off my bookshelf  and from which I made a project.  It was published in 1993 - only 27 years ago - lol.  I picked it up maybe 10 years ago and had not done anything with it.  I was about to take it to the giveaway table at our monthly guild meeting when Bea at ( https://www.beaquilter.com/) called out for participants for her blog hop.

Here is Quilts for All Seasons - a compilation of quilt patterns popular then.

There were lots of projects for each season, and I still found some that once made my bucket list, however here is the one I chose:

I'm trying to make something for each season. This looked like something I would like for Fall. So decided to make a table runner of three blocks.  One of the drawbacks to this book is that there are few instructions for each of them.  I think that's how they got so many into the book. This quilt had three pages - the one above and these two:

While reading the directions, I realized I needed to wait til I learned a few more quilting techniques.  Good thing I found out how to make four flying geese at once instead of one at a time from templates.  They never mentioned truing up blocks at each stage - that made a world of difference to accurate piecing.  And it was a weird size block.  Oh well - off to design my own design of the block - Wild Goose Chase.

So first block: the setting triangles I came up with were too small - back to the drawing board.  Got it right on the second try and then finished my first block. All the fabrics were from my scrap pile except the large print that came from my stash - and dated from the 90s!  To make sure I could true it up to 13 1/2" square I oversized the setting and corner triangles to make sure I had the correct seam allowance. So I made the first block and trued it up. Wrong - once I had the others made I realized I should have waited til I'd made all the blocks and trued them to the smallest one. So the first block became a place mat or a table mat. I'm still to decide.

                      

The other two blocks became a table runner, and it's a good thing my error happened.  Three blocks would have made a table runner too large for our coffee table.

I hope you're enjoying the blog hop - Bea has some giveaways, so hop on over. Here is the list of participants for the blog hop:

March 2

Pieceful Thought of my Quilting Life

Quilting Gail

Highroad Quilter

March 3

Cynthia’s Ark

Lemontree Snippets

Anja Quilts

March 4

The Darling Dogwood

A Quilting Reader’s Garden

Becky’s Adventures

March 5

Quilting Jeanne

Karrin’s Crazy World

March 6

Quilting at the Farm

Kathy’s Kwilts and more

Quilting Patchwork Applique

Beaquilter

Enjoy!

Some of This; Some of That

Hello, friends.  My top is done! As a pattern tester for Faith and Fabric I was thrilled to make this Lenten quilt top which was just right for my expanding liturgical series of quilts. It really spoke to me. I'm naming it No Greater Love. The on-point blocks remind me of the hymn "O Sacred Head Surrounded" when we sing "yet angel-hosts adore thee, and tremble as they gaze." If you'd like to hear the hymn here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XppXi_jZKWk

I am now quilting it and have gotten this far:

Working on Golgotha today.

I quilted every day last week so 15 Minutes to Stitch is on track.  Made 7 blocks for the Scrap Snappers so I'm good with that also and used 2.0 yards for my destashing what with the backs of a quilt and a table runner and those scrap blocks..  I also finished my blog hop entry for 

Starts tomorrow and there will be prizes. My day is March 4th with two others sharing their work.  I'm looking forward to what book the ladies picked and what they made.  Come back Wednesday to see.

I did finally put that Kitty Cucumber baby quilt together, and it now resides on my design wall. I'll be working on the outside border when I take a break from quilting the top.

Just love these kitties!

I'm linking to Oh, Scrap!, 15 Minutes To Stitch 2020,  Design Wall Monday, and Sunday Stash Report.  Have a blessed week.

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday - the solemn beginning of Lent - the 40 days of in which  we remember the sacrifice of Jesus for our redemption. Wikipedia says  the purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer for Easter through prayer, doing penance, mortifying the flesh, repentance of sins, alms giving, and denial of ego. This event is observed in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Methodist, Moravian, Oriental Orthodox, Reformed, and Roman Catholic Churches. Thus, we Catholics are not alone in our observance of Lent.

These 40 days I'm going to step back from media among other things. I'll be posting infrequently as I try to observe more prayer and meditative time. I'll probably post on Sundays because Sundays are not a part of Lent since they are days of the Resurrection, not of fasting and penance and therefore days of Joy.  

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repent and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.                         ....St. Teresa of Calcutta