![\"\"](\"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSCN9703.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nI use to buy this magazine all the time. I don’t know if it is still sold.\u00a0 It always had some interesting stories about quilters and at the back it had several of the quilt patterns that were shown in the magazine.<\/p>\n
As you can see, I wrote Grandmother’s Fancy on the front so I would know this particular pattern was in this particular magazine.\u00a0 I have done that a lot through the years when I wanted to keep a pattern I found in a magazine.<\/p>\n And I write myself notes in the pages while I am working.\u00a0 Sometimes I write something I have heard on the radio or some advertisement I am interested in. My quilt magazines became sort of diaries through the year.<\/p>\n This magazine was good about showing how to put each quilt together.\u00a0 This may look hard to some, but it’s really an easy pattern.\u00a0 I would love to make one for each of my grandchildren, but the ones I am making now are for our bed.\u00a0 As it’s a king size I haven’t made very many quilts for it because it’s getting harder for me to quilt a big quilt on my home sewing machine.\u00a0 I may have to hand quilt these.<\/p>\n This was the first quilt I made from this pattern.\u00a0 I made it many years ago and it’s been used and washed several times and is beginning to get the vintage look I love in quilts.<\/p>\n It is on our guest bed in our guest bedroom.\u00a0 We haven’t had too many guests to stay here for a while and the bedroom started to look like a storage room until this week when I put everything away and cleaned the room and made up the bed again.\u00a0 I’m glad I did because I like how it looks.\u00a0 Maybe now I will have guests again.<\/p>\n This is a king size version of the pattern.\u00a0 I plan on finishing it this year.\u00a0 It’s on the top of my list of quilts to finish. Because…\u2026.<\/p>\n I’ve made enough of the blocks to make yet another one.\u00a0 One that will be more Spring like.\u00a0 I really love making these blocks.<\/p>\n I still have a few more I want to make before I decide what fabric I want for the borders and sashing.\u00a0 I’m thinking I’ll use some shirting material for it.\u00a0 I’m reading a book right now about some people during the WWll times and one of the women in it is a seamstress and she said, “Textiles are a woman’s delight.”\u00a0 I wholeheartedly agree with that statement.\u00a0 I delight in textiles.<\/p>\n David took a week off for his birthday and we thought we might do something, but we haven’t done a darn thing except go out to eat a couple of times, but that was all right with both of us.\u00a0 It’s been so cold all I want to do is stay in where it’s warm and work on quilts or knit and David has been working on our taxes and almost has them done.\u00a0 I’m so glad he likes to do that because I would be lost if I had to do them.\u00a0 I’d have to hire someone to do my taxes even though I actually took a class on taxes in college. A lot has changed since then.<\/p>\n We did go see our two youngest grandsons in their orchestra concert.\u00a0 Children from all the elementary schools, middle schools and high schools in Bloomington joined together to put on the concert.\u00a0 Each\u00a0class had a song to play and at the end the whole group played together. It was awesome. The middle school group played a song from Star Wars and their bows were lit up and they turned down the lights and it was just wonderful.<\/p>\n This was his debut performance on his cello. Our youngest grandson.\u00a0 He’s so cute and funny.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n