Beautiful Winter Weather

What's not to love about a sunny 70 degree day in January!  We have had a warm two weeks since our ice, snow storm.   Our temps are supposed to return to a more normal 50 degrees Friday but that'a okay as  they can't take today back

Bohemian Dresden

More Bohemian Dresden

These are some of the blocks turned in at the Pine Tr

ee Meeting.  Unfortunately  for me - I didn't win them.  Don't know if I would have the discipline to make enough blocks for a quilt. 

Worked diligently on the Sling Blade.  And while S & C were here to sew on Thursday we started some new projects.  This blue stray block was one of them.  We had a great time as usual.

We always get inspiration from each other.

 This is a picture of John and I  take shortly after we were married in 1960.

  We were at a family shower in Fort Covington. 

 It would have been our 57th anniversary Sunday and his 4th in Heaven.

We had a nice family gathering Sunday evening to honor him.  He loved his family and having them come here or up to the lake for a get together was his idea of a great time.

Bohemian Dresden

The Pine Tree Quilters Block of the Month for January is called Bohemian Dresden.  Since it is a little more detailed than some of the blocks, I didn't want to wait until the night before the meeting to make it. 

Last month that is exactly what I did - and in my hurry, I made my block wrong. (3 other gals made the same mistake as I).  I didn't even notice until they were pinned up on the design wall.

I did ask the winner of the blocks if she would let me take it home, fix it (which I did that afternoon) and return it in January.

As you can see on the top picture my blades don't match up with the bottom of the fabric.

And of course this choice of fabric didn't work very well either.

The idea is to have ten blades of warm color against the cool side and the ten blades of cool colors against the warm side.  Using a stripe for one background and a dotted fabric for the other.  The backgrounds were to contain on white.

This is my final block for the BOM.   It is 16" square.  

The black dotted fabric was provided for the center.

 They also provided the blade and circle templates.

Now, this is a BOM I'd like to win.  

So now I am ready for the meeting January 12.