my tribute

at friday quilt group, busy measuring and trimming my red/green blocks...here they are all together waiting for the border...

relieved to get this far, anxious now to move on but not today....still whittling away at the solids scraps hoping to get a top done this weekend...

while busy, a few gals were reorganizing our tall cabinets and unearthed a delightful array of paper pieced blocks...donated by someone at some point....the maker?  her family?  we'll never know...but passed by until they came to me.  so much work went into them...by donating them to our group, the hope was they would be used...so most came home with me.  no doubt you will ooh and ahh as i did....

only 10 of these blocks, but there were many others much smaller, taken by another lady in our group.  one can only guess at what was the final setting, us having only pieces of the puzzle...and more blocks....

these were made with many of the same fabrics at the bird houses...blocks in the bottom photo about 4", top photo about 6"...plan (and honor) is to come up with a setting and assemble large enough for someone to quilt and finish and offer for sale...there were other miscellaneous paper pieced blocks, all individual patterns and different sizes....

lastly was this intricately pieced block...the only one in the pile but i couldn't leave it behind...so pretty and so perfect...it'll be the joseph's coat of many colors on display in my kitchen...

so anonymous quilter, your creativity and skill lives on, appreciated and enjoyed, not cast aside...your sister quilters have accepted the torch and will carry to the finish....rest easy.

rainy-ish weekend here, cooler but weather no consequence to me....got my list made and high hopes, thankful for leisure time and all the blessings in my life that money could never buy.