Saturday sewing

I started off my day by mopping the kitchen floor--the only cleaning that I didn't get done yesterday. DJ helped by dragging the chairs out, sweeping and vacuuming. Then we did our morning walk. The next thing I knew, it was lunch time, LOL.

Tomorrow I will be starting on the commissioned t-shirt quilt so today I just wanted a little "do in a day" project and decided to just make one of these tessellated leaf blocks. Stitched up, quilted and bound while I watched the Cardinal game (and then the nerves got to me and off to watch something on the DirecTV Showtime preview)

I first saw this pattern on Victoriana Quilt Designs as a block of the month last year. I looked for site to direct you to there but I guess something you need to be a member to access.

A Google search came up with a smaller one HERE on the old PC Piecers site. Obviously it has been around a bit but had not crossed my horizon. Like the PC Piecers site, I had foundation pieced my version for a fall insert to my calendar quilt to use before the ghostie one I showed you in this post .

UPDATE: ed note. A couple of you have wondered what size I made my block--I printed it off to foundation piece it at 8 inch finished but it looked a little big so while I had the paper still on it I trimmed of all the seam allowance since it did not affect the overall design.

Also Julie asked if this was an "Ozark Maple Leaf"---a google search found a block titled that at Quilter's Cache. Marcia designed hers with all over squares. Personally I cannot see sewing two or three squares together to make a rectangular strip but that's just me, LOL. Just makes me wonder who really came up with the pattern when I see all these variations. She called it a "traditional block" but I do not see it listed in BlockBase but perhaps like anything else, it has a different name. lchj

Below is a full sized one that I drew up in EQ. Recently though the Belles and I tried one called "Whispering Leaves" from the August 1997 issue that eliminated a lot of the pieces using cut squares and then little prairie point type things for the triangle units so it had a dimensional appearance rather than all the strips and "Exquisite" blocks. I got one block of 4 together at the meeting but have not touched it since.

So I believe that I will get the straight foot back on the sewing machine and get the backing for my cat quilt together. Pam has been anxious for me to get that quilt done, LOL, especially after I told her other things are going to intervene this month. Once that's done, who knows?

Hope you all are having a great weekend------