These blocks have been on my design wall for a very long time.  They are from Lori Holt's book Farm Girl Vintage.  I finished the last four or five a few weeks ago. Not only are the blocks done, but they've been organized and sewn into rows.   I was determined to get them all done and off the wall before I started on the alphabet blocks from her newest book, Spelling Bee.  



 

Farm Girl Vintage Blocks

 

 

Since it's been so long since I've blogged about anything I've also got birthday postcards to show.

 

 

Allison's 5th Birthday

 Allison turned five this year.  Her favorite fruit is watermelon.  It's about the only one she will eat. So while that is still the case she got a watermelon for her card.  This year I started a day out with grandma for her birthday present.  She and I went and saw Peter Rabbit. I was afraid it would scare her when the guy was chasing the rabbits around but it didn't.  She followed along with every part of that movie. She laughed out loud at the appropriate times and cried when it was an emotional scene.  I love to hear that kid laugh. It is such a sweet sound. We had lunch and went present shopping to round out the day.

 



Grace's 10th Birthday

For Grace's day out with grandma we went and saw A Wrinkle in Time.  Grace said she liked it but I'm not going to recommend it to anyone.

 

She and I also had our usual lunch at Red Robin and went shopping.  I asked her if she wanted to eat somewhere else this year but she said it is our birthday place so we should go there.  I think she likes the strawberry shakes. Unfortunately this year they put sprinkles in it so she didn't care for it as much. I included that here in case we go again next year.  Maybe I'll remember to ask them not to put sprinkles in.  There were other pictures that went with Grace's post but blogger had something else in mind with them.  They sure didn't show up here. 

 

I've got several other projects I've been working on, including the alphabet quilt and one or two things I'm not ready to post pictures of. 

Work has taken up so much of my time and energy that I've only been able to quilt one quilt on my sister's "new" machine.  Hopefully, that will change in the next few weeks.

 

At least when I come to the blog the picture of the black and red quilt won't be the first thing I see. That picture has been up since November and the sad thing is - I still don't have the back made for that quilt top.  Oh, well.

 

Happy Quilting,

Julie