Vintage blocks

I have been hand stitching my English Paper Pieced vintage hexagon blocks. I bought them from an antique store and they still had the paper hexagon cutouts inside many of the pieces. It looks like these paper pieces were cut from index cards. They had writing on them and must have been old cards that were recycled. Some had partial names and dates from the 1950's. Recycling is certainly nothing new.

An Easy Way to Grow Potatoes!

This year I tried growing my potatoes in a special bin I bought online from a garden supply site. I placed it in a sunny location and filled it with rich compost from my compost bin. I added garden soil and mixed it up. Then I placed about 8 seed potatoes about six inches deep. I like Yukon Gold seed potatoes. Sunday, I put on some gloves and dug through the soil to find all these wonderful potatoes. It was easy to feel for them and just brush off the soil. They were undamaged because I didn't have to use any tools. George cooked up a batch for supper,Yummm!

Quilts

I took my first on line quilting class from Annie Smith, one of my favorite quilting podcasters. I learned many new tricks including the use of "fork pins" to make joined pieces match up perfectly. I wish I had learned this trick a lot sooner. My blocks would have been much better. These are pictures of my "Pickle Road" quilt in progress.