Warm things!

Hello friend!

Last Friday night was our annual Father/Daughter Dance at Trinity.  We had a luau!   I have to share some photos:

The entryway.  (Don't you love the palm trees?  They were made by high school students for prom and homecoming last year.  They didn't have a place to store them, so we saved them from going into the garbage and stored them for our luau.  The neat thing is, we are now able to pass them back to prom committee for this year.)

The dance floor!  Sorry for the color in this photo.  All looks quiet now... but later that night when the dancing started this place was rocking!

This is a quilt I finished for my quilt guild.  It will be donated--most likely to the domestic violence shelter.  It is "toddler-sized".  The flowers were "cheater blocks" and the owls were made with the Big Shot.  The eyes are two scallop circles and the beak is the pennant die.

The wings were made with the Scallop Square die.  If that makes you scratch your head, try this.  Cut a strip of fabric about 5 x 9 inches.  Fold it in half, across the 5 inch side.  Place the fold across the Scallop Square so that the fold lies between the first and second scallops on one side.  When you run it through the Big Shot, and open it up, you'll have almost double the length of the square!  Cut that rectangle in half and angle it across the block for wings.  (You'll need to trim away the excess after it is stitched.)

My final "warm thing" to share today is February's quilt block for my Block of the Month Class.  I called this a "Hobnail Vase".  Next month will be the final class--and then I'll put the quilt together.  Or maybe I'll start putting it together before the class--I can't wait to see how it turns out!

Happy Stamping (and Quilting)!
Wendy