This quilt block shows a house in front of a mountain range. The mountain range is a dark brown with a light brown outline stitching. The house itself looks like two barns attached to each other in the middle. It is a tan brown and has pen markings on it to indicate the metal roof, garage doors, windows and porch. There is a teal and light blue diamond shaped sign above the garage doors on the right. The ground the house is on is a polka-dotted duo-tone fabric that is a shade of brown of dirt. The sky is a light blue salmon patterned background.

Block-A-Day 312 – The House That Scott Built

Tina November 8, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

It’s a big log house. He dug the hole and after the basement was poured I painted tar on the outside. We raised and set the logs and beams ourselves with nothing more than a block and tackle.

This quilt block shows a building that's made in the shape of an acorn, with a little wide stem coming out from the roof slightly on the left. The roof is a dark orange color with a tan sign on the front with the words,

Block-A-Day 250 – Little Sprouts

Tina September 7, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When my children were little they all went to a preschool a couple of days a week to play with other littles. Because they were there I volunteered and it was fun and interesting to see how different all the little people were.

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 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 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 is simple. It has a gray multi-shaded background with a triangular traffic sign that reads,

Block-A-Day 83 – Slow!

Tina March 24, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

When my husband was faced with a situation like that he would just sit there. Sometimes I didn’t think he even heard me and I would feel impatient wanting some action on his part. I finally said at one point “What are you waiting for?” He looked at me and said “Sometimes you just have to sit and think for 5 *@#x!!+ minutes!.”