Happy Birthday Wendy! So glad you've joined those of us in the super sixties.

Lois, love both your groupings of blocks. Hard to decide which ones I like best (colour-wise)

Happy Birthday, Wendy. Great way to celebrate!

Renata, I can't take credit for the color combination. I pulled it out of a Kaffe Fasset fabric. I am trying to learn something about color and I find all kinds of really unusual combinations in his prints. As for what am I doing with the extra blocks, Nancy had an idea. Play with them and maybe put them together in a larger quilt. I was thinking it's looking like I am making two quilts. Time will tell.

Very happy birthday to you Wendy! Lois, I would have never thought of your color combinations but LOVE THEM! What will you do with the other blocks?

Happy Birthday, Wendy!! Enjoy yourself!!

Nancy

Happy Birthday Wendy!

Happy Birthday ! and Welcome to the decade !!

thank you

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WENDY And welcome to the world the little girl.

I like them both Lois they both work. We'd be boring if we all liked the same things. When I go to a quilt show my friend and I always ooh and aahh at different quilts.

Still not watched video, I've been out throwing stones in the sea to celebrate my 60th birthday but will catch up.

The baby I'm making this quilt for has popped out a girl so I shall have to make Rita's jelly roll race quilt for her and can take my time with this one.

Hi Lois - I like both of your backgrounds. You might even be able to incorporate all of your blocks into a single, larger quilt. Maybe making secondary designs by the placement of the different backgrounds. But I really like to play with and push the boundaries of color so I might be going somewhere that others will cringe at (that happens a lot for me). At least it's something to try on the design wall just in case you come up with something unexpected that you really like.

Nancy

Here is some news from the Dilly Dallier, me! I never got around to posting my 9-patches last week so I took pictures with the completed pinwheels. Remember I couldn't decide which background fabric to use so instead of Dilly Dallying I made them up with both. I guess I will have two quilts when I am done. Actually, part of the reason for doing this I just wanted to see how the quilt would look with these different backgrounds. I'll just have to wait and see what happens as I continue to work.



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One sheet makes 8 units which will make 2 blocks. Just so you don't make twice as many as you need. Use a shorter stitch length for sewing (1.5) and a thin foundation paper. I use Office Depot translucent vellum paper, Item #345-854.

Thank you very much, Annis. I will download the .pdf file and will try this method too. One sheet makes enough to make one block so that is very neat. I am not at all a fan of paper-piecing (it is that grain-line monkey thingy sitting on my shoulder that tells me it is not a good thing) but this I can cope with!
Great web-site! I have book marked and will go back and explore more. I am exceeding my online allowance at the moment so when we have finished this sampler I can go back.
I will try building up around the sewing machine. Maybe now DH has retired he will at long last get the time to build me a proper extension table - a girl can dream can't she?
Marianne