post-weekend

**BETTY ALERT** Betty, don't read this blog until you've received a package in the mail! Go aWAY from the page, Betty!!

The Yellow Daisy Festival was this past week-end at Stone Mountain Park here in Atlanta. There was one special booth....

Various items cut from china, both new and old. Won't this make a pretty necklace?


I just love this rooster china pattern; here she's made it into a bird feeder.


But I couldn't stop there. Also got two recipe holders, both with pretty rural scenes, one being Currier & Ives, three magnets with pretty little scenes on them, and an Occupied Japan creamer made into a night light, that is absolutely perfect in my beachy bathroom that has vintage tin sand pails and things like that. Oh, and I did make a purchase in another booth: the necklace thingie on the left that contains a little strip of lace that has Pennsylvania tulips on it. Couldn't leave a Pennsylvania tulip behind.


This week-end was also BOM day at LQS, so got the blocks done. With the fabrics from the main BOM, I did another block out of my Maggie Malone block book and did the usual 12" block using a Westminster fabric, doing another Maggie Malone block. For the applique, I added one black-eyed susan and a somewhat alarming cat. We now have eight blocks done for each of our whatever-we-decided-to-do, and about this time, I start wishing that I could assemble them. I've been using the background fabric for the 12" blocks for almost a year now, so it practically qualifies as using up one's stash :-). I just hope the stash inventory holds out until all the blocks are done. I just guessed at the amount at the outset.

Thank you, peewee, for the link to the quilt origami site (previous post's comments)!