In The Pink! Economy Block Finish

It's a finish!

Economy Blocks

42 x 48

I started it in 2023 to use up some  four inch finished Four Patches I had in the Parts Department as well as some scrap chunks of mostly pink and blue florals.  I used two four inch squares of the florals cut on the diagonals for the Four Patch corners to make a six inch finished block. 

I quilted it on my sewing machine with horizontal and vertical lines. 

Here's the back. The binding is a pink floral.

And sew on...

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A little quilting marathon will be going on here in March . Soon I will have boxes of comfort quilts to send off to two of my favorite charities that provide quilts for kids  - Wrap-A-Smile  (WAS)  and      Quilts Beyond Borders.  (QBB).

Wrap-A-Smile (WAS) partners with Rotaplast International.

 Rotaplast International, Inc. is committed to helping children and families worldwide by eliminating the burden of cleft lip and/or palate, burn scarring, and other deformities.

Quilts Beyond Border (QBB) quilts go to many different initiatives...foster care, refugees, Indian reservations, orphanages, women's recovery centers...you will just have to go read the QBB blog because I can't remember them all. 

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One day when we had some very nice weather I put together a couple of Adirondak Rockers for one of my newest gardens close to the house. Of course the directions were all pictures and some directions/pictures were a little difficult to decipher so a few choice cuss words were uttered. 

There are two old rusty swing sets without swings in this area. I used the swing sets as trellises for some roses and have planted a lot of fragrant perennials and bulbs around here. I call it "John's Garden" because I made the area for my husband to go sit and enjoy the birds and bees and flowers and stop and smell the roses.  The rockers are sitting on cardboard that I put down to keep the weeds out. I'm going to pull that out and plant a ground cover like sweet alyssum. My husband is frail and on oxygen so can't walk far.

I also put together another bench for the "Perky Goth/Moonlight Garden" I started a couple of years ago. I cleared the area overgrown with mostly elderberry, wild grape and honeysuckle so I could plant pink, black and white flowers in memory of my perky goth granddaughter Kayla who died unexpectedly four years ago. This garden is quite a walk from the house and a greater part of it is shady so it has been quite an ongoing journey figuring out what pink, white and black plants I can put in the garden. 

I put up a fence at the bottom end of the garden to hopefully make the deer that come up through the wooded area take a detour around this garden.  I put the bench in a sunny area and soon I hope to sow some poppy and bachelor button seeds and maybe a few others around the bench. Our last frost date is around May 15 but some things can be sown before that date. The ground is very dry but rain is predicted Thursday-Saturday so maybe I will sow seeds after that. 

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I am thankful for friends who keep me sewing. In the last week or so I received a bolt of yellow fabric from Liz, some backings and bindings from Ann and a lot of fat quarters from Teresa. Oh the makes I can make!