Beyond The Cherry Trees – Block 22

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This months Beyond The Cherry Trees block has turned out to be a real charmer. It's filled with lots of wonderful hidden stitches.

The block is in pretty bad shape. The greens are faded and some of the fabric is missing so at first glance it doesn't look like much.


As you can see, my helper is never far away from this quilt. I can't understand what it is about this one that intrigues him so much.


I had worked on this section months ago and figured it was a good place to start stitching again.


It turned out pretty neat with all these leaves and berries.


I found this on the opposite side.


Do you see anything here?


Woo hoo! How cool is this? There were lots of great designs in the center of the block.








Here's our block with all of the stitching done.


and a quick look at my 'dock garden' and our hot humid sky tonight. You can download this month's block on the Beyond The Cherry Trees page.

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Red, White & You! – Midget Block 124

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We've been busy here celebrating the Fourth of July holiday. Lots of really nice fireworks over the lake and the weather has been practically perfect. I hope you don't mind I skipped a couple of days to spend time with family and enjoy the holiday.

Have you made any red and white Midget Blocks? I haven't seen anyone post pictures yet in the Red, White & You Flickr Group. Come on quilters, share those beautiful blocks!


Today's block is one of those quilt blocks that just oozes friendship to me. It's called Coffee Cups. I spend a lot of time drinking coffee and sharing a cup of coffee with a quilter, even if it's on the telephone or via email, brightens my day.


When I began drafting this block I found that as coffee cup blocks go this one is quite unique. I was finally able to track down it's origin and found it was designed by Carrie Hall.


I'm putting together my red and white version in a rather unique way. I'm constructing it with a combination of applique and foundation piecing. I cut 3" x 4" pieces of background fabric and using the back basting method, appliqued the handles and cups in position.


You can see from my pencil markings on the wrong side where the top and bottom edge of the cup is. I'm going to align the side edges of the cup with the lines on my foundation pattern for that area and finish the block on the sewing machine.

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Red, White & You! – Midget Block 123

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I hope everyone is enjoying the Fourth of July holiday weekend here in the U.S. Paul and Angela arrived last night and Rob arrived this morning so we're looking forward to some relaxing and fun in the sun. It's going to be a warm weekend. This is going to be kind of 'short and sweet' today so I can spend time with family.


Here's today's block from the antique quilt. It really is a pretty block. It doesn't appear in any of my block libraries and was a fun one to draft.


I haven't sewn my red and white block yet but this is how it looks drafted for the pattern. The name of the block is Logger's Star.

Midget Block 123



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