This quilt lock shows a caramel colored café with a pink door. Above the pink door it reads

Block-A-Day 15 – The Café

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I love the pink door, I’m certain there are pastel macarons in glass cases with other french pastries. You can have a latte or cappuccino with dessert.

This quilt block shows a panel beater autobody garage. There is a blue car on the front of a building with a red angled roof.

Block-A-Day 14 – Panel Beater

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This little block was confusing at first to me. What is a Panel Beater? I’ve learned that Auto Body shops are called that in some commonwealth countries. The designer is from
New Zealand, a commonwealth country. It tickled me so.

This quilt block shows a yelow building with a domed roof. It has four blue-silver windows, the word

Block-A-Day 13 – The Warehouse

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Today we have a warehouse. Not a super exciting building. However, it has an interesting shaped roof, rounded like a Quonset hut set on top. This would allow for offices on a third floor perhaps accessible by an elevator that can carry people or freight from different floors to the loading dock in the back.

A quilt block with a tall gray building against a dark background indicating night. On the front of the building above the dark door is a sign reading

Block-A-Day 12 – Upholstery

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This square features an upholstery shop. Oh, how I wish we had one of these in our area. Also, a note in this post about stabilizers.

A quilt block with a dark blue background showing a building with a red angular roof. It has the word

Block-A-Day 11 – The Builder

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I’m using Sakura Micron pens to do the lettering on my buildings. 40 years ago I worked as a sign painter. This was before everything was designed by a computer. Back then everything was drafted by hand with squares, circle guides, and rulers on heavy kraft paper.

Block-A-Day 10 – Downtown And More

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Here are the first 9 blocks sewn together to make the town square. I love it. I added lots of buttons from Just Another Button Company, whom I mentioned in the last post. I attached them with a basting glue so we can all see how cute this is going to be. After the quilt is all put together I will put it in water and the buttons will come off. After it dries it will get quilted, then I will permanently attach them. I can’t wait to finish the next round.

This quilt block features building going around a corner with buttons depicting flowers in the bottom right. The space needle, a tall building with a particular shape, sits next to a coffee shop.

Block-A-Day 9 – The Needle

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Notice the sweet little buttons that make up the flowers and night stars? I plan to use as many of these little buttons as I can in this quilt. I get them from Just Another Button Company. They have so many fun buttons, every color, and size, even handmade ones.

A grand building on a quilt block featuring a gold dome on top.

Block-A-Day 8 – The Capitol

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This is a grand building. In the pattern, it is called “city building”. I put a gold dome on the top to remind me of our state capitol building in Denver, Colorado.

Buildings are placed across the breadth of a quilt square both horizontally and vertically as they go around a corner. A sign reading

Block-A-Day 7 – The Lunch Dash

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Today we continue with the city square going around the block with another tiny park owned by the city. I’m supposing these are office buildings with lots of workers arriving early.

A quilt block featuring three buildings in a row. One is tall with a clock at the top, and the far right building has large round windows.

Block-A-Day 6 – The Tower

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This is my favorite block so far because of the clock tower. I thought it would be a little challenging and fun to make the clock face. These blocks are really little, much smaller than the uploaded images cause them to appear. The clock face is only 5/8″!