Love Your Postal Person

Whether by US Postal Service, UPS, Fed-Ex or Special Delivery don't you just want to KISS the delivery person!?  Not even RAIN in Southern California can keep them from delivering your package!!!

Received a box stuffed with goodies from
Missouri Star Quilt Company

Said Goodies.  

They even sent a free treat, 

embroidery scissors.

Using a pattern from this issue of BLOCK,
I am going to make a lap quilt for my sister's grandson.

Holiday Vol 3 Issue 4
Starburst (page 85)








TA DA!  I've never sewn with pre-cuts before.
I may need to do this more....

All the half-square triangles are finished.
Different technique, really fast.

Laid out on my design floor

It was fast and easy.  The layout took a while.

It did not use the entire pack of the 10" pre-cut blocks.  The pattern says to use half, but I wanted it to be a lap quilt and not a wall hanging so I used more.  That is why the layout took a while...


Now I need to sew the blocks together
and take it to my friend to quilt.

Club House Turn

Here we are in the last quarter of the year.  For those of us making quilts for Christmas, it's time to burn the midnight oil.... 

As normal for me, I have been traveling for work.  When I travel I work on my Glorious Hexies in the airports and hotel rooms.  I'm actually making some progress. (And, it keeps me off the street corner.)

Sitting in the Phoenix airport last night, it was interesting to me that other passengers waiting to board the plane who were so engrossed in their iPhones, iPads, Blackberries, Blueberries, Marionberries and the such were "alone."  But there were several people (like me) doing some sort of hand work (knitting, crocheting, etc.) and while they worked, most were chatting with their seat mates.  Actually interacting with people!!  Can you imagine?!

I was chatting with a very nice young woman traveling from Michigan to San Clemente, CA to get married!  Her young man was in the army and just back from deployment.  She was so very sweet.  I prayed a quick blessing with her. 

Finished

Finished these three on this trip.

My neighbor text me while I was away that she picked up a box from my door from Missouri Star Quilt Company.....YIPPIE! 

In it is a "layer cake" that I will use with a pattern from Block magazine (Holiday issue. Vol 3, Issue4) and that will complete my Christmas quilt list for 2016.

I will open it today!