A New Post!

OK, I haven't been doing very well keeping up with the CWLL blog but I am going to try and catch it up!
Here is an interesting post from Sue Garmen's blog about some beautiful vintage quilts she saw in Houston this year.


And here are my blocks for Jan. get together.

Barbara Brackman has a great blog that is interesting for quilters who love vintage and/or want to reproduce antiques.

Click here to visit her blog

April's Blocks

Here is Marrianne's choices for April.
A couple of hints shared were in some of the blocks you can piece them conventionally rather than foundation piece or pp part and then finish with "normal" patchwork. She also showed us that the flag needs to be reversed as printed!

April LL Group Meeting

With a much needed beautiful spring day three of our group managed to get together for lunch and to show off our latest "finishes" and of course to preview April's blocks.
Marrianne was the hostess this month and with Peggy gone back East and missing Christina we were small but still held a regular meeting.

Lunch was a yummy pita bread with a warm turkey filling...you will have to share the recipe with us...and we had an enjoyable chat as we ate. Previous to lunch we made block choices to try and finish up the year 2009, so be thinking Peggy and Christina. We also discussed if we would just skip the blocks in Dec so that the hostess in Jan doesn't feel overwhelmed during the Christmas holiday period. We decided to talk to Peggy since she is our Jan hostess.

Don't you just love all of our blocks this month?

Carrolee's blocks

Cathie's Blocks
Cathie explained how she varied from the pattern for the lower right block by strip piecing and ignoring the paper foundation. She said that for her it went together much quicker than expected and although she made the little rectangles squares the block doesn't look much different than the original.

Marrianne's Blocks

Civil War Cot Quilts

Did you know that during and after the war women made special quilts for recovering soldiers?
The quilts were made the size of a cot rather than bed.
Here's a link that mentions them.
click here for the link

Our Blocks for March 09

Peggy has chosen these six blocks for us to do in March. She gave us some good tips to help us have a successful six when we finish!

Awful Tragedy 38-39

Benefits of the Sick and Wounded 70-71

Single Thrashing 78-79

Funeral Procession 108-109

Provisions 178-179

Privilege of Communication 232-233

It was Peggy's turn once more to hostess the refreshments and March's choice of blocks. Lucky us we had a warm and sunny day with light breezes and about 50 degrees. Made us all long for spring!
Peggy fed us well too!
Of course we enjoyed showing each other our versions of Feb. blocks and some of us had some surprising fabrics and sometimes we would have traded our blocks for someone else's! LOL

This set of blocks are Peggy's, don't you love those stripes in the middle bottom block.

Maryann's blocks...love that daisy like print on the bottom left block.

These are Cathie's blocks and she took a risk with the pink and turquoise block, and the purple and yellow blocks with some different fabric choices!
Thanks for the hints Christina and now to March's blocks in the next post.

Not Really Civil War but...

A very interesting Lady to read about...Lucy Boston an English lady who was an author, gardener and "patchworker"!

Click here for the link

Feb Blocks 2009

Christina picked 6 great blocks for our group for Feb. (notice her romantic red background)

Tents of the Enemy pgs 42-43
Travels pgs 70-71
Jersey Boys pgs. 96-97
Florida Has Seceded pgs 134-135
Nothing Like and Affectionate Wife pgs 162-163
Imaginary Feelings pgs 228-229

Have Fun everyone!

Feb. Get Together at Christina's

Our lunch time meeting was at Christina's home for Feb. and we were blessed with warmer weather and of course Christina fixed us a lovely lunch. Excellent Chicken Salad Sandwiches, strawberries and grapes and a Feb. favorite of Red Velvet Cake from a recipe by Paula Dean. We all remembered having the cake as youngsters and how much of a novelty it was with the two bottle of red food coloring ! LOL
We also shared our finished Jan blocks and each of us found something that we would do differently and more than one of us had to "re-make" a block that didn't work the first time.
We love seeing how choice of fabrics and colors makes such a difference in the look of the block.
Well done everyone and we are more than 1/4 through the quilt blocks.

Great Info on 19th Century Quilts

For your reading pleasure an overview of quilts of the quilts of the 1800's
Click here!

January Meeting at Cathie's

Cathie took the excuse to leave up her Christmas decorations extra long so that we could enjoy them at our Jan. get together at her home. Unfortunately a terrible snowstorm had us postponing our first meeting of Jan but a week late isn't so bad.
Lunch was crust less quiche since Cathie is back on the low carb train once again along with homemade (by her neighbor) Toffee and a Mrs. Prindables caramel and triple chocolate chip apples.
Cathie's Jan Block choices Due Feb. 3

55: A Beautiful Picture
83: Rebel Spy Hung
139: Mrs. Massie's Party
204: Second Term
208: Another Battle
262: Always Hopeful and Cheerful

She also shared information about Carte de Visite as mentioned in A Beautiful Picture's letter From AE Cheney
( Yes there is a mistake on the block upper left but it has been corrected after the picture was taken)

December's Blocks and lunch

We had a lovely time at Carrolee's home showing off our Nov. blocks and seeing what Carrolee's choice of blocks for December will look like. She also served soup and our choice of pie...and what choices we had from her family's pie baking marathon!

December Blocks due in Jan Pages

24: Severe Fighting
110: Forgotten the Word Defeat
114: The Monitor
126: Virginia Military Institute
130: Greatest Jollification
194: Americus Soldiers Relief Society

Cathie's Jan Blocks (yes I know that my 130 is too small...see my blog CD)

The rest of the blocks are lost on my computer somewhere so I will post the others after the Feb meeting with Christina.
Update: Blocks found!

Auld Lang Syne...

Carrolee's Blocks
Peggy's blocks
Christina's Blocks (minus 2 which she has since completed)

Gosh I can't believe I have gotten so behind on posting our group's work!
I thought I had done December and didn't so I am behind for two months. Sorry and hope to do better this time!

These are November's Blocks we showed in December's get together.