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.

A Civil War Quilt Mystery!

I ran upon this article while searching for some patterns and thought you might be interested in this mystery!

Enjoy

Click on the pink words to see the link!

A quick Hello

I return tomorrow to Utah and am looking forward to getting back to my sewing machine once more.

Thought I would share this neat pattern for a familier block done in CW fabrics.

And this page with quilts using CW collections by Baum Textiles

Due in December...

Mariann has chosen these blocks for us to complete in November for our Dec meeting...which is the same day as the Christmas party. Do you want to meet that day or choose another day? I will bring this up as soon as I am back home.

HI from Texas

Just thought I would share a free Civil War era pattern....beautiful red and green applique...if you dare! LOL

http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/civil_war/pomegranate.htm

Enjoy!

October's Finished Blocks

Just added the pictures from the Nov 4 meeting! Well done everyone! Mariann's Oct Blocks

Christina's Oct Blocks

Carrolee's Oct Blocks

Since Cathie will not be at the Nov meeting at Maryann's I have uploaded the blocks early.

Another CW Link

We aren't the only ones who use quilts to raise money here's a link about how quilts were used during the Civil War times to raise money

Civil War Quilt LInks

I thought it would be fun to share some links about the Civil War times when I find a good one.
This one is about quilts that were used to raise money during and probably after the war.

November's Blocks

New blocks once again due to be finished on November 4 and we will be meeting at Marianne's home.
This month's blocks are numbers,
20: Sorrows of War
90: A Consoling Thought
136: Runaway Slave
136: Camp Conditions
156: Incompetent Officers
268: Home Sweet Home

Peggy shared the story from Home Sweet Home as Richard Adams came home as a prisoner of war and told us about her father who also had been a prisoner of war during WWII.

October's meeting at Peggy's

WE had a wonderful October meeting at Peggy's and missed Christina but I am sure she is have a good time in Florida!
Peggy served us a lovely light lunch of homegrown salad, finger sandwiches and some cantaloupe shared with us from Arlene of the New Friend's Day group! YUM!
First of all we did our next group of 6 blocks instructions with Peggy. You can tell Peggy loves stars with her block choices!
She also gave us a transfer for our first Abe Lincoln block and a cd with more images for us to choose from if we wish. Cathie mentioned wanting to find an image of Jefferson Davis who was president of the Confederacy if possible to add to her quilt and she is planning on sharing that when she does.
We next did a show and tell of our completed blocks and it is so fun to see how fabric choices sometimes makes our blocks so different from each other once again.


Carrolee's Blocks

Marianne's Blocks

Peggy's Blocks

Cathie and Christina's are in the previous post.
Thanks for a great monthly meeting Peggy.

September's Blocks Completed

Cathie's September Blocks
Challenging picks Christina!








Christina's September Blocks

September's Meeting and blocks

Today was our second group meeting and we enjoyed a yummy treat at Christina's home and shared our hard work with the first 6 blocks!
It is so much fun to see how each person is interpreting the blocks and as we oohed and ahhed over the fabric choices! LOL
Here are our first efforts!


These are Peggy's blocks










Here are Carrolee's

Christina has created her versions of this month's blocks and they look wonderful. She also told us a few tricks to have them come out the way they should look!
Have fun with this month's blocks!