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! 

~d

Bitty Block Bee meets Clock-Along!!

 This past year I have participated in the Bitty Block Bee.  There were 14 of us and each month one of us was Queen/King Bee, picked a theme and received two 3 1/2" or 6 1/2" blocks from each member for a total of 26 blocks.
The month of May rolled in and it was my turn to be Queen!  I was inspired by some fruit and veggie blocks on text fabrics seen while perusing Flickr AND wanted to make a clock.  Yo peeps, could you each pick a Roman numeral 1-12 and a fruit or veggie and one of you  make me some clock hands?

They were game and more than rose to the occasion! Here are the blocks all put together that those crazy creative folks made for me!! 

All I did was highlight the numerals with a black running stitch and do a bit of quilting.

At the Mini QT Swap we are having a Clock-Along.  A couple of the lovely ladies (Marilyn and Ruthie) made up a tutorial for us to follow which made it soooo easy for me! 

In this photo you can just make out some buttons we received when our girl was at West Virginia University...left them there so you could see how big it is....21" square!

I love it!  Thanks Bee Buddies!

I bought more clock works because it's a great gift to make with orphan blocks!

I was going to put some buttons on the clock then I found the huge hands so that idea went out the window but my buttons now have a new home cause...

...my pal Sandie gave me this HUGE glass Ball jar for my perle cottons!!:)

See that little project next to my sewing machine?

Now it's an oh so cute little zippy bag made from a pattern called 

This and That Suzy's Sack and some Shelburne Falls!!:)

Gotta love plaid!:)

~d