This quilt block shows a blue salmon-patterned background with a bunch of very thing black vertical lines on it. The vertical lines have a larger base at the bottom of them. These are dead trees with little black skeletal like branches coming off them. There are dozens and dozens on this block making up a quite burnt forest.

Block-A-Day 295 – A Collective Breath

Tina October 22, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Then a miracle happened, the weather got colder, the wind changed and it snowed. My son refers to it as the day Hell Froze Over. Everyone took a deep breath and saw what was left.

This quilt block shows an apple tree with apples in it. The trunk is a dark brown and very wide, tapering up towards the foliage. In the dark green of the greenery are red pieces of fabric with bright green tops that are apples. The foliage is outlined by a bright green stitching. Propped up against the tree is a silver ladder, and nexto the silver ladder is a satchel that's tan with several apples of the same kind inside.

Block-A-Day 292 – The Apple Orchard

Tina October 19, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Apples and apple products (particularly apple cider vinegar) contain malic acid. This is believed to be helpful in treating fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and gallstones.

This quilt block shows an aspen tree. The tree trunk is a cream colored fabric stick with darker lines drawn in to give it the texture of an aspen tree. The leaves are numerous little yellow and orange spots of fabric, all attached with invisible thread. They appear as if they are floating around the aspen tree trunk, and that they are turning for autumn.

Block-A-Day 286 – A Pink “Quakie”

Tina October 13, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

A dear friend was once away from Colorado in September, and was terribly homesick. He told me at one point that he would give his right arm to see and hear a pink “Quakie”. I know how he felt.

This quilt block is a corner block with a green section of fabric in the bottom right. This piece of fabric has a blanket stitching with equally deep green thread. Coming out of the green section and pointing towards the center is a tree. The trunk is dark brown, and the foliage is a bit cone shaped. It's the same green as the grass, and each piece is outlined in the same green stitching.

Block-A-Day 273 – Main Street Trees

Tina September 30, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

It’s grown to be quite a large tree with large branches. I’ve asked to have the branches trimmed twice so that my window can be seen from the street. There is kind of a love/hate relationship with my tree for me. I love how pretty it is and the shade it gives in the summer.

Block-A-Day 271 – River Run’s Trees

Tina September 28, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Groups like this are common at River Run. The terrain has highs and lows that offer spots where trees grow well. The whole area is beautiful and the designers want to give a “back to nature” feel. Trees are so important to this atmosphere. They provide shade, color, and life.

Block-A-Day 243 – The Granby Chamber Of Commerce

Tina August 31, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Our Chamber of Commerce / information center in our town has a cool logo and I wanted to capture that on my building. The Chamber works hard to bring people to Granby and helps business on main street.

This quilt bock shows a large tree in the middle growing up from the bottom. The trunk is a solid piece of brown fabric much like the color of bark, outlined by two stitches of yellow thread. The foliage likewise is one nebulous piece of dark green fabric with an outline like that of a tree. IT is also outlined in two stitches of yellow thread. However, amidst the tree foliage are kites in varying degrees of stuck. One kite is embedded into the foliage, only showing half of itself, it's tail coming out in another place. Another larger kite is embedded ot the right, its corners stuck. It's longer tail is coming out of the right side. There is another kite hanging down that is blue.

Block-A-Day 231 – The Kite Eater

Tina August 19, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Remember poor Charlie Brown trying to fly a kite and every time he did a tree ate it? I think in one Peanuts strip he just took the kite out and fed it to the tree.

This quilt block shows a dark reddish-brown fence in the middle with two cone like dark green trees on either side. Above the red slats of the fence are six little dark bugs drawn in with a pen. These are presumably flies.

Block-A-Day 229 – The Recycle Bins

Tina August 17, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

A golf course doesn’t want their refuse containers where anyone can see them so this is a nice camouflage for the ugly necessity. Must be getting close to trash day because we can see some flies buzzing around above the area.

This quilt block shows a putting green on a golf course. There are two trees to either side of the putting green with black trunks and dark green fabric foliage. The putting green itself is the same dark green fabric, but in the center of the oval shaped surface is a big black pole sticking into a hole. At the top of the pole is a little red flag with the number 1 penned in white. Near the hole in the green is a white dot, also penned in. That's a golf ball, Marc's golf ball.

Block-A-Day 227 – Marc’s Hobby

Tina August 15, 2021Block-A-Day Leave a Comment

Competition has never been very important to him and he’s playing golf for fun and because his wife said he had to get a hobby. Since he retired he’s been wanting to “help” her a little too much with everything.

This quilt block shows a weeping willow tree. The trunk of the tree rests in the center of the bottom of the block and grows upward, tapering to the end point at the top. Then yellow and green stitching comes out of the top like a fountain and "sprays" downward. With each stitching line there are green leaves outlined by stitching to indicate the leaves of the tree. On the left leave vine closest to the trunk there is drawn a dark green caterpillar with yellow spots.

Block-A-Day 220 – The Weeping Willow

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

One day when I was walking by I saw the most hideous creature I had ever seen (I swear I just had an involuntary shiver). On the end of a branch, about a foot off the ground was a horned tomato worm.