Sunday, June 15, 2025

MINI WALL HANGING AND NEW YORK BEAUTY BLOCKS

I finished all the blocks for my Rosemary & Thyme quilt.  Now just to get all of them up on the design wall and sewn together.  Now that is finished I can get a few mini projects handled and out of the way.

When I first saw a picture of the Rosemary and Thyme pattern on Facebook I thought I could master it by myself.  That did not work very well and I realized that after wasting a lot of fabric trying to figuring it out I would just buy the pattern and get over it.  But this block was my attempt and I didn't want to toss it.  So I took some time this week to make it a little wall hanging and put it up on the brick wall in our kitchen.
I have been working on these New York Beauty blocks.  Dee Christopher does a class every Saturday on the internet.  I get her classes by going to Alex Anderson's site but they are also offered  free on The Quilt Show site under Learn.  These little babies are paper pieced and I have had a wonderful time making them.  I have a lot of Tim Holtz Elements fabrics which I really love.  Not sure how I will finish it but I do have one more block to make, the blocks are 9.5" and I am sure I will do a border around them so maybe in the end 24" to 30" square.


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8 comments:

  1. Frédérique - Quilting Patchwork AppliquéJune 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM

    Your Rosemary & Thyme block is lovely, and I love how it looks while framed and hanged. Your NYB blocks are beautiful too, it sounds like it's a great and fun class. These Tim Holtz Elements fabrics are gorgeous!
    Thank you for sharing and linking up.

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  2. Deb AJune 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM

    I like your wall hanging. Sometimes playing to figure out a pattern is the challenge we need.... and other times solving the problem with the pattern works too! Have a good week.

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  3. SaraJune 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM

    The little wall hanging is the perfect use of the block. Love those paper pieced blocks. You choose such good fabrics for them.

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  4. cityquilter graceJune 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM

    loving those NYB blocks a whole lot....

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  5. BonnieJune 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM

    It's fun to try to create our own version of things. Sometimes I succeed and many times I don't. I've started buy on line patterns as PDF just in case I want to start really early on them. I was surprised to see you live in California... I lived there for quite a few years but always closer to the sea -- San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego areas. For some reason I was sure you lived in Maryland. DUH!

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  6. ChrisknitsJune 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM

    Oh, I love your NYB blocks!!! Off to bookmark that series.

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  7. Pat at Bell Creek QuiltsJune 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM

    I like your little wall hanging and your New York Beauty blocks are beautiful! :)

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  8. KateJune 17, 2025 at 6:36 AM

    The wall hanging is really cute. Those paper pieced blocks are such fun. I've seen those elements fabrics, they are really cool. Happy stitching this week.

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