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Paula Murrey came to Colorz   Quilt Shop    and was working on her daughter.s mixer cover (shown above) . Anne Manly came and got a few questions answered and a few things out of the way. Dawn Leitsch was working on her Splendid Sampler's second block. Ellie Knolb brought a few projects to work on too! All in all we had a lovely time visiting and stitching!  I finished a small wall hanging of Fig Tree Quilts with her wool also.  I also got the second block of Buttermilk Basin's free BOM laid down and ready to be stitched! I will save this for stitching while watching the Walking Dead and Downton Abbey on Sunday. This is a small wall hanging from Little Gatherings book by Lisa Bongean with a saying from Mark Twain embroidered on it. I will check back later with you, Martha.

I decided that  with June being the start of " Row by Row Experience",  Minnesota's state  Quilt Show, Pinetree Patchworker's Guild show, my free time might be limited. There is also a Minnesota shop hop to consider and Crow Wing County Fair in July and August. So since I volunteered to be in a small quilt swap in a quilt shop hosted by my guild's president, I thought I better get started. First I picked out some fabric and then a pattern. I had a Fig Tree pattern I had not made yet.  So I was ready to go! Make six of these blocks.... Put them together with sashing and spool cornerstone blocks.... Add a small border.... Put on some buttons to imitate knobs and some black straight stitching to resemble a needle,  quilt with an elongated serpentine stitch and add some binding.  Now all I have to do is hand sew it down! I am definetly ready for the August swap. Martha.