They are on their way from OZ

Marilyn and Susan your blocks are on their way. Hope they will be there super quick. Past history has shown about 3 weeks. Stay calm.....

January Swap Blocks - Quilt Shops

It is swap time again and here is the random generator list:

We had one late entry and Tracy wanted to swap with her so Trudie and Tracy will be swapping with each other even though their names are not on the list.

Here are the January swap blocks.  Please have them in the mail no later than Monday, February 9th and report here or to me by email.

Two more shops to swap.

Denise and Linda Th each have a shop ready to swap.

Denise made this one.

Linda made this one.

Polka Dot Roof to Swap!

Here are my store blocks. I will trade the one with the polka dot roof. 
Marilyn

Cathy - Quilt Shops Done!

I'm finally done! All five shops are finished with a day to spare. :)  I'm having a hard time giving these up.  I'm going to keep this one...

And this one...

I'm going to swap this one...

And keep these...

Deana, thanks for such a fun project.  I've had a blast making these blocks.  :)

A shop to swap from Edith.

Here is Edith's block to swap.

I have 2 blocks to swap this time. Lucy

Susan: One Block to Swap

I can only wish this were made on my hand crank Singer. It needs a bobbin cover that fits. This is The Quilted Horse, but there's no place for words, so the quilt works like the old Amish signs - a picture of what the store is.

Cheryl's Quilt Shop blocks finished

I made 2 quilt shop blocks, one to trade, one to keep.  Both blocks were made on my 1959 Singer Spartan hand crank.

1959 Singer Spartan hand crank

I've made all my other blocks on this same machine, but, I had been using the motor on the machine instead of the hand crank.  It's much more fun to sew with the hand crank instead of the motor.

block I'm trading

block I'm keeping

Notice the vintage sewing machines in the window quilt blocks.  If I ever have a quilt shop, it will have LOTS of my vintage sewing machines in the shop, too.

Quilt Shop Block

Quilt shop block to swap

The quilt on my shop is no match for Cathy's quilts! They are lovely. Mine is a bit homespun!

Cathy - Quilts for the Shop Windows

I just had to share!  I absolutely love these little guys!

Today I start building the quilt shops that go with the quilts.  :)

three more blocks to show off

These are the pics that I will keep.  Once again the pics are distorted and cloudy. 
I have put the blocks that I have ready together and they look great. 

Shop block swap

This is the block that I will be exchanging.  I wanted to keep it but....I loved doing this row.  I think it has been my favorite.  Sorry the picture looks a little cloudy. 

Shop to swap - Lorri

Lorri has a darling shop to swap!  She also wants me to  report that she received Edith's beautiful block today.

Quilt Shop Lane

It is amazing what I can accomplish without the help of toddlers. These are the blocks I am trading

And these are the blocks I am keeping

These cute shops were fun to make, but definitely had to use my seam ripper more than once. 

Here is my Seam That Seam strip

And here is my Pinwheel Flowers strip

The variation in size of blocks is very interesting. This will be a fun quilt to  join and quilt. 

Daryl's Quilt Shop Blocks

Here are the quilt shop blocks I made. The first block below is the block I am swapping.

This is the block I made to swap. The little quilt that hangs on the shop can be set on point like this or...

...set straight like this. Whoever receives this block can decide which way they prefer it and tack it place on the block.

I made this block and added rickrack with French knots on the gable end of the roof. 

I changed the windows to square on this block (and the first block above that I will swap), I also cut the gable end with a curvy inside instead of adding rickrack. I did add red French knots. I will add a shank button for the door knobs of these shops after I make the quilt so it doesn't get in the way of the quilting later. Again I placed the little quilt on point here.

The little quilt on the shop is not on point like in the above photo. I am not sure which way I will place the little quilt. Perhaps one will be on point and the other not.

Here is another shop style. I had a few small quilt block stencils, so I stenciled this using Shiva paintstiks. I  added some embroidery by hand to enhance the stencil. I added some ribbon to the roof and added yellow French knots in the center of the flowers on the ribbon. This block got a bit wonky when I sewed it. Maybe it will look better when it's in the quilt and quilted. I hope so!

Here is another style of quilt shop. Again I added rickrack to the roof. Instead of a little quilt in the window, I fussy cut a sewing machine from a sewing notions print fabric.

Quit shop to swap

Quilt Shop #5 is ready!

I just emailed out Quilt Shop #5 so watch for it.

Shop to swap!

Linda Te has a quilt shop ready to swap.