An open bag is an empty bag at my house, and it isn’t because of the boys. I sadly can admit to eating large bags of M&Ms in one day while in college. So rather than bringing home a bag, I went and played on the M&Ms website. You can make your very own M&M character at http://www.m-ms.com/us/becomeanmm/create/
This is mine –
Some of you may have noticed I added a page to my blog sometime ago called “Block a Day.” If you missed it it is at the top of the screen directly below the blog’s title and to the right of the link for the “About” page. I challenged myself to paper piece one block a day on a Garden Quilt from an old Quilt Maker issue. I didn’t keep up with exactly one block a day, but I was pretty close. I finished the last of the paper pieced blocks on August 15. All that remained was the setting blocks and the borders. So here is the reveal –
The top is not complete. I will be adding embroidered bugs. As much as I dislike paper piecing (hate removing the pattern after I’m finished), this was a fun quilt. I used lots of very small scraps. I didn’t buy any fabric. However, it wasn’t all from my stash. My sister pieced one of these quilts a year or two ago, and I quilted it for her. My price was that she send me the browns she used. I didn’t think I had very much brown, but I was wrong. I collected a fair quantity of brown while searching for just the right fabrics for my “All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir” quilt. I still used some of Sheila’s fabric.
I left the measuring tape in the picture to give an idea of scale. The quilt is only 30 inches high. All the squares for setting strips and nine patches are 1 inch.
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