I Won!

Thank you to all who voted for my little wallhanging in last week's Quilt Gallery contest.  My quilt got the second highest number of votes, so I won one of the five books being given away.

 How exciting!  I don't have a lot of time for reading these days but I will definitely sit down and read this one when it comes.  Thank you to Michelle for hosting the contest and to Laura for donating the books.  And thank you again to those who voted for Tom's portrait!

More Blocks

More Thread Head Quiltalong
First of all I finally caved and redid a couple of earlier blocks that I wasn't completely happy with.

These are Block 2.  I inadvertently  turned the hour glass units in the block on the left.  I thought I'd leave it and be different.  But the more I looked at it the more I didn't like it.  So I took it apart and repieced it correctly and like it much better.

And I didn't think I had enough contrast in the block on the left below (Block 13)

So I redid that too.

Then I made Block 14

And Block 15

Saturday

Block 10 for the 1880's Sampler Quilt...a Sawtooth Star Variation.  I chose to make my center sashing around the 25 patch narrow like the original quilt.  These are 5" finsihed blocks so those center squares are really tiny.

Here are my 10 blocks made to date

Block 12 from the Thread Head Quilt Along...Goose or Turkey Tracks

And the blocks to date..9" finished block size

This week's Civil War Block..Lincoln's Platform, aka Double Monkey Wrench

 Here are the 10 Civil War blocks made to date.  These are 8" blocks.

Working on 3 projects using the same type fabrics is kind of fun.

Quilt Gallery Contest

I couldn't resist entering the weekly contest over at the Quilting Gallery again this week.  The theme is People or Faces and I entered the wallhanging I made for Tom called "Some Things Change".

I've blogged about it before and you can read the story in this post.

It's still one of my favorite quilts.  If you like it too I'd appreciate your vote. Thanks so much.   My quilt is the next to last one.  If you don't see it you will need to go to "view" in your browser and change your text setting to medium and not large.

Thread Head Blocks & Siggies

I've missed posting some blocks from the Thread Head Quilt Along project.

Here is Block 10..a Variable Star variation

And Block 11  Lady of the Lake

And then I jumped ahead and did Block 13, a Monkey Wrench variation.  The one on the left doesn't have much contrast in the big HST's and I may decide to redo it.

And still being random I made Block 17 today, Ohio Star

I've also received two siggies in the last week.

From Sandy in Michigan

And Jeannette in The Netherlands

Thank you both!