I feel like this is some kind of milestone: 20 blocks, 10 more to go, 1/3 of the way finished with block-making. Also I think I've caught up with my original schedule of making one block a week. This is the 20th week of 2016, and I have made 20 blocks. I won't venture to say how long I'll stay caught up; but for now, I am.
Here are the two blocks I made today.
Lori Holt calls this block Spring Star, but in my quilt it's Vettie's Star. Vettie was my paternal grandmother (Maw Maw). She lived on a small, very small farm. She had chickens and ducks and geese and a milk cow and a couple of oxen (or maybe it was just one ox). She also grew vegetables and some kind of grain crops, if I remember correctly, to feed the stock. She also kept bees.
Lori calls this black Country Crossroads, and I'll leave it at that. But the fabric that makes up the blue squares, with its playing children, reminds me of my sister and our cousin, who were best of friends and playmates in our childhood. They're also the children on which my sister based Lily Claire and Willie T., in her book. If you haven't read her book, it's a sho-nuff good one--Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge by Ramey Channell. Check it out.
20 Weeks, 20 Blocks
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On 05/21/2016, Joanne said ...
I love "Vettie's Star!" It really reminds me of her. That's going to be a wonderful quilt.
On 05/22/2016, Judy Cloe said ...
All the blocks look fantastic together! Nice work Susan.
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