It's fun to finish a quilt and take a photo. That's the only way I "keep" many quilts. I've made hundreds and hundreds of quilts in the past 35 years and given away most of them. I only keep those I use for my teaching and trunk shows and also those I want to use to give to friends. 5 Block Gingham Garden: 44" x 46" The Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks were English Paper Pieced. Then I machine appliquéd them to four background rectangles. But the center of the 4 blocks was boring, so I added that pink one. Notice that in order to increase this to a usable size, I added the two pink print horizontal strips. Quilted by my guild friend and part of our charity quilt endeavors it went! Dancing Apples: 47" x 47" Apple themed fabrics used in off center log cabin blocks. Fun, huh? Delectable Mountains: 50" x 55" Delectable Mountains: 50" x 55" The floral print was left over from workshop samples from 10 years ago! No templates...

Oh, I'm not talking about tasty mountains! I'm talking about a vintage pattern that I took some liberties with. Here is the vintage block in multiples arranged in 6 different assemblies. This is from my magazine days, maybe late 1990s. Actually, the first time I saw this newer version was when Kathy Wierzbecki (from the staff of Martingale Publishers) did a demo at least 20 years ago. I thought it was SO clever. Here's one done in blues. I combined some un-pieced squares with four Delectable Mountains blocks. Delectable Mountains quilt. 26" center block The four blocks measure 7" high by 12" wide. The center floral square is 12". The four outside squares are 7". I sewed a LOT of those units without any idea of where I was going. Here is one idea up on my design wall. I still have the blocks and some finishing fabric. This will become a charity quilt before the end of the year! 9 Delectable Mountains blocks I made one several years ago using some Kaf...