2024 Vintage Sampler Block of the Month

Designed by Nancy Rink
Completed top January 8, 2024 (began May 14, 2023)

Audio books:
            The Medici Manuscript by C. J. Archer
            Winter’s Redemption by Mary Stone
            Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
            The Life We Bury by Allen Eskins
            The Guise of Another by Allen Eskins
            Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
            Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
            The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
            Worth Dying For, a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child
            The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
 
Whoa! I COULD NOT RESIST when I saw basket blocks on the wall of Yankee Cloth's second floor. When I discovered they were part of a BOM, I paid for the entire program then and there! The fabrics are Vintage Charm by Judie Rothermel, my favorite reproduction fabric designer. Each month brought beautiful fabrics into my home, and it is ready for my bed.

 

2024 Go Getter

Designed by April Rosenthal of Prairie Grass Patterns 2020

Completed top January 19, 2024

Audio books:
The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskins
Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
#23 Burlington Square by Jenni Keer

        The Pecan Man/The Truth About Grace 

            by Cassie Dandridge Selleck

This quilt really needs a better name.
I purchased this kit at Cotton & Chocolate in Thousand Oakes, CA in 2023. This is another quilt, with Love, Lilly fabrics, that has a breezy, summer cottage feel.

2024 Harvest Pumpkins

Designed by Vickie Gerike, from County Seat Quilts book
Completed top January 14, 2024

Audio books: 
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
#23 Burlington Square by Jenni Keer

This was a quilt waiting to be made for my house.

I had mentioned to my husband last fall that the seasonal Halloween quilts were cute, but not something I would want to make for our 1897 house. And then, during the 2023 All New England Shop Hop, I found one of my favorite shops, Meeting House Fabric in Wales, MA (not on the shop hop list of stores).

This beautiful autumn quilt, with stars in the center of the pumpkins, was made in traditional fall colors. I thought the kit was too expensive for me, so I bought the book! When I returned home and turned the page on my quilt studio calendar -- there it was, the featured quilt for October! Needless to say, I had not needed to buy the book, but I am happy I did. 

Did you feel the universe reaching out to me? On the next visit I just picked up the fabric pack because there was no way I could replicate the look of the original, to heck with the cost! This quilt is perfect for my house. The quilting is exquisite with oak leaf and grape vines intertwined throughout. 

I had extra blocks, so I made a table runner for my good friend Lucy, who loved this color theme. Sadly, she never got to use it before she passed in August. But her husband is keeping her decorating traditions going.