Thank you for your vote...

when I entered this quilt:

in the Quilting Gallery Beginner's Quilt-Along.   This is what I won:

Thanks, Auriful, Quilting Gallery, and all of you who voted for me!  I truly appreciate it!

~ Jodi ~

Easy Street

These colors are not true, at all, and I don't know if I'm going about my selection of fabric in the right way.  I'm linking up to Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street mystery project.  So far I have MOST of the unit ones complete.  Instead of gray I used blue with the black on white for the four patches.  The above print is a Kaffe Fassett, but I think I'm only using that as a color guide, not because I don't want to but because it's a mystery so far.  I did not get color cards as Bonnie suggested, only because I don't have time to go to the store, even tho my son works at Home Depot in the paint department  :-)

Above are my Unit ones, 194, (almost).  Here's the post link if you want to check it out:
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-2.html
* I made a mistake - that's NOT Kaffe Fassett fabric, that's Philip Jacobs - Coleus!
~ Jodi ~

A purple theme emerging?

Yesterday I posted my purple African violets, today I notice these blocks have purple in them,

and so doesn't that gorgeous purple cauliflower from our FarmFresh basket we just received. 

The above four blocks have been fun to make, but I think I'm done.  In order to get a larger variety of fabric, I will have to cut into stash because I don't have enough scraps, so I might make this into a wall hanging or table runner.  On the other hand, I do have quite a bit of these same fabrics already cut into 3" and 31/2" squares so I probably should keep going.  Decisions, decisions.

I've also started a mystery quilt with Bonnie Hunter from Quiltville.  We'll see how far I get with that.

And, I want to participate in this: 

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Okay, that didn't seem to work.  Here's the blog post:

http://mamaforpeace.blogspot.com/2012/11/december-treat-for-myself.html

We'll see how far I get on THAT, also!  

Have a good weekend!

~ Jodi ~

Random

I've had these African violets, (one was a gift from my sister when I had surgery), for about three years, 

and this is the first time I've managed to coax them into flowering, so I just wanted to share a bit of purple beauty in November.

Have a wonderful Friday!

~ Jodi ~

Three years ago...

I lost my mom.

She was only 79 - lung cancer.  Life has not been the same, especially this past year, which has been harder than the first two.  I don't know why that is.  She actually left this world on November 28, but for me it will always be today, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Some day, we will meet again.

On a much lighter note, here is a quilt she made back in the late '70s/early '80s.  I think it's the only one she ever made.

"No more sorrow, no more pain..."

~ Jodi ~

Mod Bento Box

I finished, after probably two years or so.  And I love it and it's ours.  Finally, a quilt for our home for us!  Or maybe me.  My husband thinks it's too busy and crazy.  He likes order and sameness and conservatism, which to me equals boredom!  Plus, it is very pink, so I'll give him that.



The pictures wouldn't load the way I wanted them to.  I did some cross-hatch lines, and then in the white border I did FMQ.  That picture up above shows what I used for the backing, which is a sheet I purchased on sale at Target.



And these show some close-ups of all the fabulous fabrics.  I did NOT make all of these blocks, or even most of them.  It was a swap I participated in, which was so much fun.  I think I made 36 blocks, kept six of those, and then received 36 different ones from all over the country (USA), and some other countries.

So it's washed and nice and soft, and ready to be used.
Thanks for visiting my blog, and I'm sorry if sometimes I don't respond to comments, although I always try to.  Have a good Monday, everybody!
~ Jodi ~



Low volume high volume quilt

I stole this block idea from Lynne who thinks it might be a depression block but she couldn't find it on the web.  I'm going to call it low/high volume.
Here's a link if you want to check out her beautiful finished quilt:
http://pieceful-lynne.blogspot.com/2012/11/recession-quilt.html

And the above pic is an example of a lesson NOT learned.  A couple of posts ago I showed a table runner that I made and some of the fabric melted under the iron.  Well, I did it again.  I knew this bottom right fabric was not 100% cotton and used it anyway.  And, of course, it melted.  So I removed three blocks and replaced the fabric with something else.  BUT I noticed after posting the photo of the two blocks that I missed one.  You probably can't make it out, and I don't know how to use those fancy arrows that some people use to pinpoint something.  Anyway, I'll be getting Jack out again.  All in all, these are fun blocks to make and I hope to have an entire quilt soon.

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!  May you bless and be blessed!

~ Jodi ~