It’s a bit melancholy for me this round, but I will share with you what I began several months back. 🙂

Each month we took Buddy in to be groomed because he was too big and too HaiRy for us to keep him looking and smelling nice. And each month the groomer sent him home in a cute kerchief tied about his neck. I couldn’t throw them out.

hey! it’s fabric after all! ok?

So I began making quilt blocks out of them

Some were bones and some were balls

and I didn’t get the Buddy Quilt done in time…

I am going to finish it and will include a blank block in the middle to put our dog’s names on it. I feel it is a great save of what otherwise would be landfill fodder. It will be a good memory quilt to honor Buddy and all the other pups past and present.

And now go see what other’s have made this past month for Scrap Happy!

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Kate, Gun, Titti, Heléne, Eva, Sue, Nanette, Lynn, Lynda (me),
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Debbierose, Tracy, Jill, Claire, Jan, Karen,
Moira, Sandra, Linda, Chris, Nancy, Alys, Kerry, Claire, Jean, Johanna,
Joanne, Jon, Hayley, Dawn, Gwen and Connie

Posted for April 15th, 2016

As I have mentioned before I began my quilting adventure in 2011 by crafting a quilt for a new friend I met when visiting Jayme from Tales of the Coop Keeper. At that time I had the desire to quilt, but no knowledge of the plotting skills or the math involved to pull it off…

Ergo, after making a “watermelon” quilt

I had tons of red and white squares and triangles to spare and they have been stored in a Ziploc bag, at the bottom of my scrap drawer, till now…

I have joined up with Kate Chiconi at Tall Tales From Chiconia in ScrapHappy. This is a creative group of like-minded people who want to use it all up and have fun making their scraps disappear. Then we all share on the 15th of the month. Links to all participants will be listed on Kate’s blog site! Please follow the link above to see what the other more experienced quilters have come up with.

After much experimentation, and cutting down I am left with a pair of ten inch blocks. A bit of blue border has given them a decidedly patriotic flair.

Windmill block to the left and Hourglass blocks to the right.

I haven’t finished them yet, because I can’t decide if I want a table runner or pillows! If a table runner is in their future I will have to come up with a third block to tie them all together.

This process of laying out and working with my scraps has reminded me of the Inuit carver who studies a bone or wood specimen to see what is living inside, then begins carving to release the spirit and image within. No spirits in my work, but this time around my *points are coming along nicely. 🙂

Practice, practice, practice!



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NOTE: Points refers to the area in the quilt block where all the corners meet up. Getting them to get along is very exciting for a budding quilter. Well, actually, I think it may be an exciting moment for any quilter! Those little corners can be rather pesky.