Challenge #8...having our way with log cabin blocks!

September Mini Mania Challenge....sixteen log cabin blocks using one or one and a half inch strips going three or four rounds around center.  Easy Peasy.

Picking a design...not so easy!

Log cabin blocks are as versatile as half square triangles...just a little more involved to piece.  Therein lies the problem....you really need to think of your design before stitching all those strips together!

 Using leftovers from the Grandmother's Flower Garden WIP and some neutrals from my scrap bin, flowers grew in a lovely log cabin lawn. Used a little Chenille-It for fuzzy stems. 

Yes, it's a 16" mini...

 ...and a 16" pillow!

 Love to make pillows out of minis so they serve double duty.

 A little applique, some buttons and perle cotton stitching brightened it up!

Now it is tucked away waiting for the quilt to be finished. Some day!!

 At the shop we are getting ready for Houston, cutting, cutting, cutting.  

Made new fabric logo labels....

 ...for our new fushia aprons!! 

 If you visit I don't think you will miss us! 

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Still here....still sewing

The weather has been flip flopping hot, cold, now hot again.  The garden is loving the heat...not me!

Here is a fifth finish lounging among all the greens.

 The inspiration came from a house hubby did a little work on last year.

I think the house itself would make a great quilt!

Now I need to give the runner to them!

So many little seedlings coming up...that's a tiny dogwood among the lamb's ear and periwinkle!

We have done some traveling too....

 View from our 12th floor window....any guesses?:)

Atlanta, Georgia!!  That's Centennial Olympic Park built for the 1996 Olympics.

We were there for sis-in-law's Investiture into the AIA College of Fellows.

The most touching thing in the park is the Quilt of Remembrance which has a mosaic of stones from around the world to honor the 111 people injured in the explosion.

 Google Quilt of Remembrance Centennial Park and look at all the images.

So many ideas!

Still working on my Medley of Jen Kingwell!

I goofed on all ten of the lower blocks by putting a light where a dark was supposed to go.

Fabric pens to the rescue! Can you tell which ones were colored in?

Those log cabin blocks are three inches!! 

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Second quarter finish along list.