A Few Cake Stand Blocks

Well as you can see my plan to lay this project away for a few days didn't last. You all understand, right?  After all the hard work of cutting and organizing how could I not piece together a few of the blocks.  So, Friday night I loaded up a design board of Cake Stand Blocks to be sewn.

Then a board of 16 patches.

And then I just kept making more in my spare time all weekend long.  Sigh...I love them.  

As I sat back looking at the design wall on Sunday evening, I began to think about my quilting journey and what it took to get to this point.

 Years of saving every little bonus half square triangle and triangle shapes to sew into HST's.   Thousands of them!  I would like to tell you it takes patience to get to this point but really it took a lot of half assed planning and procrastination.  It may not seem like much to some but for me it's a big deal.  A lot of things and people have come and gone in my life, but one thing has stayed the same, quilting.

I've been quilting for almost 40 years.  It's hard to believe. This hobby has been with me through all of life's ups and downs.  Some folks are emotional eaters, me too, but I'm also an emotional quilter.

As I sew the blocks together, I'm playing a quilters game of I Spy.  

I Spy a fabric...

...from the first quilt show I went to

...gifted to me from Beverly

...from the quilt I made dad when my brother died

...from a trip with Judy to Ben Franklins in Southern Indiana

...I bought last week

Someday I'll be gone, and the quilt will live on, hopefully with my family.  There's no way to share with them all the memories this quilt holds.  It reminds me of looking through granny's old photo album.  Black and white photos of people I'd never met.  No names, only faces but they all have a story that only granny could tell.

My newly made blocks were carefully placed into the storage totes for safe keeping.  You never know how long it will take for me to be in the mood to make more.  Who am I kidding, I want to make more now but I know there's a quilt on the frame waiting to be finished.  So, the plan is to quilt on the frame this week.  Should I need a break, I have a 2025 BOM project that is way behind. 

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