red sky at night sailor's delight.....

This is the last chunky block I made for this quilt. When I had 32 sailboats made, I had no idea how to lay them out into a top. 

Then I saw this quilt again... made by brooklynquilter...for her dad with blocks she had won at block lotto. This was the blue print. I made 4 more boats for a total of 36.

Four boats per chunky block and one star (nine total)

The boats became tall or wide as needed by adding fabric for filler.

The stars only needed to be laid tall or wide.

It measures 68x74. The borders remind me of "modern"....big and fat,

but it also has a "Amish" look to it with the black,

there is also free piecing or wonky.

The best category it falls into is DONE!

School starts back up in one week. 

I haven't touched my scrappy trip around the world in weeks now. Back to this one. Over half the blocks are made, the rest are all tubes ready to go. 

Before I do that, I will work on my contracted braille class.

We were given a big bag of sweet corn. Need to get that ready for freezing.

We canned peaches the other night.

I feel like a domestic goddess getting ready for winter!

block lotto.....

I need to catch up with all my Block Lotto blocks for the last few months.

In May I won the flying geese. I love them.

I am not sure what I will do. 

But, the more I look at this picture, the more I lean towards making a quilt with this layout.

Then we made tall sailboats.

 

All year we have been making tall blocks. I am liking this change of pace from square blocks.

July was I-spy-houses. I was surprised by how much novelty fabric I had. 

Now we already into August.

Tall stars, or wide stars. I love these stars. I have made several extras....

A couple days ago I started making sailboats.

I had a stack of cherrywood scraps to use.

I kept sewing and sewing, trying to get a sailboat that looked like a picture I had seen.

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I never did quite get it. But ended up with a nice stack of sailboats.

At the same time I was making the red stars.

I laid it with my sailboats and was excited by how it looked. 

I have enough for nine of these big chunky blocks. This is a quilt for my sister-in-law. She and her husband have a sailboat. They go just about every weekend.

Red sky at night, sailors delight!

I never got Easy Street hung up,

BUT

I did get the guys just to hold it up for a picture.

I pieced the back. It was a big 9-patch. Now its more a wonky 9-patch.

That's all for now. I can't find the picture of my scrappy trip around the world.

Over half the blocks are done, the rest is in tubes ready to cut and resew.