Block of the week {week 4}

This week we will be making a bottom block. 

The block will go all the way across the bottom section. So do not add this to your quilt until after week 5.

It's looking so cute isn't it! 

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Moda Designer Blog Hop starts today in the UK with Aneela Hoey

Borrowed from Moda's Blog.

Just one of the questions the moda designers will be answering during the blog hop.....

How many nights
have you or
your
spouse spent on the couch?

This will also give you the opportunity to follow all of their blogs, join them on twitter or just be entertained.

Beginning February 1, zip over to the UK to hear from Aneela Hoey.
Feb 2. Visit the charming ladies from Blackbird Designs.
Feb 3 Jan Patek is sure to entertain.
Feb 4th Hop on over to Anne Sutton and visit Bunny Hill Designs.
Feb 5th Cotton Way will be featuring some of her wonderful projects.
Feb 6th Joanna from Fig Tree has it all buttoned up.
Feb 7th Kansas Troubles will amaze us all with her warmth and hospitality.
Feb 8th Find out what Kate Spain has to share. Any pillow talk secrets?
Feb 9th Kathy Schmitz has something wonderful stitched for you.
Feb 10th Camille Roskelley wants some pillow time (sleep) after having a new baby in the household.
Feb 11th Me and My Sister will energize you with the creativity oozing out of every orifice of their body.
Feb 12th Hear what these two retired librarians (Minick and Simpson) have to show and tell.
Feb 13th Liesl from Oliver+s has been so busy creating fun stuff.
Feb 14th Sandy Gervais, the queen of hearts, is featured today.
Feb 15th Lauren and Jessi Jung , one of our mother and daughter teams.
Feb 16th Sweetwater is so-o-o-o inspiring.
Feb 17th Visit this noted historian who probably can tell you when pillows were invented.
Feb 18th Deb Strain has just joined the blog world. Stop by to see her creations.
Feb 19th Join American Jane back here to talk about her design inspiration.
Feb 20th Primitive Gatherings is joining in on the fun as our newest moda designer.
Keep your calendar open just in case we have a few more people designers joining our pillow talk.

I hope you enjoy their playful humor, casual anecdotes, and stories from childhoodas they speak through their pillow and design. (especially while being pressured to do so! )

I'll try to get the link to each designer's blog each day and link it to the button on the right. This is going to be fun. It's really neat to see the huge variety of talent in quilting - so many different options. My oldest son has a house full of clear colors and I have a new grandaughter - lets see - which fabrics.........?????

Blogland Neighborhood Finish -- Surprise 2 for 1 !

So, my latest finish passed inspection by my daughter. Here are the details ...

A little while back I won a set of nine house blocks in a giveaway from Love Laugh Quilt. I posted previously here about the ladies who made the fabulous blocks I received.

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Well, I guess the basic idea/expectation was to make a quilt with your nine blocks, but I decided to go in a different direction. These blocks were so pretty and lively I wanted them to be out somewhere I could see them ...

So I decided on a table runner. And not just one, but two! Above is the first one. It uses 6 blocks from the giveaway plus one I made. I made the block with the tree on the end.

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This table runner is for my dining room table. And then, using the other three blocks I have left I am going to make a matching runner for the little antique chest that we use as a sideboard! It was very hard to decide what blocks to put in each one, but I went with how they worked with each other.

I put a street on the bottom (using fabric with names of quilts on it) and a nice polka dot for the yellow line. My son wanted strawberries growing by the side of the road instead of grass, and at the top I put a blue fabric that could be interpreted either as stars or snowflakes, whichever.

The binding is a green polka dot.

I quilted it with a combination of straight and wavy lines. I just did it with the regular foot on my machine. I have yet to try the free motion foot I bought.
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I thought it was quite cool that when I showed this to a friend she thought the blocks looked very much like something I had made myself due to the lively colours. And I agree that I was very fortunate to receive such vibrant creative houses!

These are the three blocks that I still have left to use for the little sideboard runner. I think it will be such a great matched set!

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Happy Quilting!

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And now for some linky fun ...