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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.
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