This quilt block shows a square building with a square roof. The building is a light tan, and the roof a very dark brown. On the roof is a light yellow sign with the words, "Driving School" written on it in pen. Below that is another sign, this one showing a blue car with white stitching outlining it. Below that is a dark brown door the same shade as the roof, and a large almost black sign with a gray upper case L in it. This is all against a blue salmon-patterned background.

Block-A-Day 232 – Driving School

Tina August 20, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When I was 15 my high school taught driver’s education. A regular class we went to every day for several weeks. We had a Driver’s Ed car that had pedals on both sides.

This quilt block shows a jagged piece of green fabric at the bottom to indicate grass. Above that strip of grass is a pretty detailed wheelbarrow constructed out of very dark brown fabric with a yellow stitching outline. The top rim and inside of the wheelbarrow is a gray fabric. Inside the wheelbarrow, which we are seeing from the side, is dirt, brown fabric marked with pen, and a flower pot. Inside the flower pot are pen lines going up into buttons. The flower bulbs are tiny two-hole buttons of various colors.

Block-A-Day 208 – The Wheelbarrow

Tina July 27, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Occasionally, that included a kid that wanted a ride. Always amazed me how much I could move by just adding two handles and 1 wheel to my efforts.

This quilt block shows a patch of weeds and grass with flowers both red and yellow in the lower right. This is made with a jagged cut of green fabric and quite a bit of multicoloreed stitching for the stalks and flwoers. To the left is a hand mower. This is a lawn mower you would push my hand. When you push it the wheel turns the blades inside the barrel of the machine's end that it cuts the grass. The handle and wheels of the mower are black with a yellow stitched outline. The blades inside area gold golden brown.

Block-A-Day 191 – Scott And The Push Mower

Tina July 10, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

A long time ago when Scott and I were first married I brought home a push mower. I thought it would be a good workout.

This quilt block shows a sandbox. Each corner of the sandbox is capped with the end of a brown log. The upper left brown log has grass at the bottom. The sides of the sandbox are made up of a green fabric indicating the walls/boundary. Inside is a light brown fabric for sand, a truck made out of pen, a yellow toy shovel stuck in the sand, and an orange bucket. At the bottom of the square is jagged grass. This is all against a blue salmon-patterned background.

Block-A-Day 186 – The Sandbox

Tina July 5, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When the littlest was digging down he could get where we could only see the bottom half of him sticking out. A garden hose was always on hand with an on/off so they could have lakes, moats and floods.

This quilt block shows a perfectly rectangular fire truck made of a deep red fabric. In the front the cab windshield is a splotchy golden yellow. As we look at it from the side we can see a orange sign bordered in yellow that says,

Block-A-Day 143 – The Fire Truck

Tina May 23, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

They would turn on the lights and sirens and drive a few blocks to the movie theater we had then. I would cover my ears and be scared silly. The theater was called El Grande and once we arrived there we’d line up, still bundled up to our chins.

This quilt block shows a brown and orange cement truck against a light blue salmon-patterned background. The cab is brown with a light orange windshield. The fabrics are splotchy except for the mixer which is orange with brown speckled polka-dots. There is an orange band around the mixer with writing that says,

Block-A-Day 138 – The Cement Truck

Tina May 18, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When we turned onto our County Road there was a cement truck coming and being his first left turn he turned a little too much. It looked like we were going to drive into the cement truck. He corrected and we missed but it sure made an impression on mom.

This quilt block shows a light green splotchy truck against a light blue salmon-patterned background. The truck has a single seated can in the front with light yellow patches of fabric indicating the windshield and window. The back part of the truck is flat like a pick-up truck and extends back pretty far. There are two dark circles indicating wheels with small off-white two-holed buttons in the center of them indicating the axle.

Block-A-Day 134 – The Green Machine

Tina May 14, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When my son, Asa, turned sixteen he bought a 1978 ford pickup from his grandfather. He learned to drive in it and so did his younger brother. It was light green and got terrible gas mileage. And they loved it.

This quilt block shows a large brown building with a lower entrance level, and an upper level with a mesh metal railing. The yellow sign at the top against the muddy brown says,

Block-A-Day 125 – The Parking Garage

Tina May 5, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I have memories of shopping with my Grandmother as a little girl. She always drove a Cadillac or a Lincoln Continental. It felt like a boat. We would go to downtown Denver and there were two parking garages that she used. One went up and one went down. Both scared me silly.

This quilt block shows an enclosed coffee stand. On the front is a big window that's open with two blue door

Block-A-Day 77 – Thanks A Latte!

Tina March 18, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was 55. There are a lot of us that think of that perfect cup of coffee in the morning. I don’t drink a lot of coffee but I sure like that morning cup. For me, it means hot chocolate powder mixed into my coffee and cream.

This is a square gray building with a dark door on the right. The door has a window on the top, and to the left of the door is a window showing red cuts of meat. The sign below the flat slightly darker gray roof reads in cursive,

Block-A-Day 68 – Ernie’s

Tina March 9, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When I was a little girl we had a market called Strauchman’s. Two brothers from Denver owned it and they had an amazing butcher shop. And they had an amazing butcher named Ernie.