by Linda Theil Alisa gave me Girardelli chocolates and pre-cut fabric as tiny gifts in my 2024 Advent calendar celebrating each December day leading up to the holiday celebration. By Christmas I had an entire "jelly-roll" of 2.5-inch-wide strips of fabric from the "Holiday Flourish-Festive Finery" collection from Robert Kaufmann fabrics. I pulled some background and a blender from my stash and started researching block options so that I would be ready to sew once holiday festivities were over. One of the options I explored is a beautiful book, I Love House Blocks: 14 Quilts from an All-time Favorite Block , published by Martingale & Co. in 2017. A house block with a shed-like addition called "Little Country Home" caught my eye. The layout was adaptable to my 2.5-inch-wide strips, so I made a sample block as proof of concept. The block has a barn-like quality that I liked, so in honor of my snowmobile-builder son, I decided to put a snowmobile in th...
Paradox: Even though we're going in different directions we can still walk side by side.