Mary, I love your block. The piping really makes a difference too. Geneva, Your block is so different to the floral ones but so unusual, I spend ages looking at it working through the process you had used in my head. Great job!!

Mary, your block is beautiful. I love the background. It is all very delicate looking.

Janice (in Northern MN) -- your block is beautiful. It has been a pleasure looking at the detail you added to original design -- the side flowers, the extra border around the hearts, piping, border, and setting triangles. Such a joy to view. Judy

Geneva, I love the originality of your block. I really appreciate your detail in describing your design decisions. I am looking forward to future installments. Judy

Mary, it's fantastic. I agree that the piping really does add a lot of spice. I had never done piping before this block.

Mary, beautiful combination of fabrics. The piping detail is exquisite. Your workmanship is outstanding! Judy

Love it, Mary! Isn't it amazing what that tiny strip of color does for the whole block!

Wow, what a wonderful assortment of beautiful month one blocks- all of you have done such a nice job!! I completed my block today too and am happy with it. I did needleturn applique and added piping as did a lot of you. I think piping adds a lot of dimension and definition to the blocks.

Wow!, Geneva, your block is wonderful! And so nice to hear about your thought processes when you were making it! It's totally going to make your RR look different than anyone else's. Hugs, Robin

Geneva,
I like that your Pinecones are so subtle-then the triangles come in with color!

It is beautiful Geneva. I love the placement and all of the details you've included on it. Next month is going to be such a blast because all of these beauties are going to grow. Your colors are fantastic. You should email Jinny a picture of what you've done with inspiration from her book. She would love it too.

Geneva, I love your block, it is very inspiring. I really enjoy everyone's interpretation of this quilt.

WOW! Geneva you are singing a new song, and I love it! All your hard work has definitely paid off!

Ok, I finally finished the center block. My theme is Trees, so I started with a block called "Pinecone". I found this in Jinny Beyer's new book of blocks. I drafted 1/4 of it to 7 1/2" finished, 8" unfinished and made four of them and sewed them together. Each block was foundation pieced to Ricky's stable stuff. I used my window to trace from my drawing to the stable stuff. I had to adapt the block a little to fit my needs. I used my embroidery machine to embroider the pinecones in the very center and then set that yellow center block into the center of the other 4 pinecone blocks. When I was done I was very pleased, but it sure wasn't very nice looking! I mean, grey and brown and black? For a green quilt? But I stayed calm and remembered there is a lot more to do!



I wanted to piece the setting corners, so I got out my drafting paper again and drew the corner and played with various settings. I liked this setting and got all set to piece those flying geese, except they aren't flying geese! The triangles had to be foundation pieced using Ricky's stable stuff and my window. But wait! The bigger triangles on the end all had to be drawn to fit into the larger setting triangle. (Ask me how I know this!) In any case, I finally got all the pieces going the right direction and I'm very pleased. I included some green and purple which will be in the quilt. Now the center pinecone doesn't look so blah! And please note that the block is square, thanks to all the stable stuff, it looks crooked because my design wall hangs from a rod in front of a closet, so it waves in the wind!

I'm looking forward to February's borders. I plan to add lots more of the 20 or so greens I have, some more purple, yellow, etc.

Thanks everyone for inspiring me! And thanks Margo for your excellent assitance.... til next month..... geneva