This QAL is brought to you by Partners in Design: Where Friends and Fabric Meet.

Presenting Framing the Blocks


This QAL is brought to you by Partners in Design: Where Friends and Fabric Meet.


This QAL is brought to you by Partners in Design: Where Friends and Fabric Meet.


I still need to applique the little fella. Update: I’ve now finished the appliqueing; you can see the post about it here. There’s also a giveaway going on with it as it’s part of a blog hop.
Today has arrived!! Thanks for stopping by to see my block that I designed for the Fall Into a QAL.
This QAL is brought to you by Partners in Design: Where Friends and Fabric Meet.

BOMsBOMsWelcome to the release of the eighth block for the Fall Into a QAL.

This QAL is brought to you by Partners in Design: Where Friends and Fabric Meet.

If you are looking for my Fabulous Freebies Blog Hop post, you will find it here. But you are still invited to check out this leaf block before you go.
Welcome to Fabulous Freebies Blog Hop hosted by Calico Joan of Moosestash Quilting. Thanks Joan.

Let’s explore the world of online bee swaps and a very special quilt-a-long as part of Fabulous Freebies.
The loons did not call us to arise as they had last year (read that post here) but we awoke before the alarm sounded anyway. We both sighed — for me it meant that my shop hop fun was coming to a close and for Tu-Na Helper it meant that his fun could now begin.
If you recall from yesterday’s post (day 5), we secured the last hotel room in the greater Brainerd area for the night.
We arose early to prepare to drive the short 30 minute trip to the quilt shop in Pequot Lakes in order to be there when it opened at 9 am. I was still getting ready as Tu-Na Helper announced he would start taking our bags to the car.
He grabbed the cooler, slung his bag over his shoulder, unlocked the door, reached for the handle, and pulled. Nothing happened. He moved the deadbolt to the lock and then to the unlock position again and pulled on the door handle. Again, nothing happened. We looked at each other. Could we both still be sleeping and dreaming or is this the beginning of a quilting thriller? Help! Let me out. There’s shops to visit and fabric that needs to be bought!
He tried several more times locking and unlocking the door and pulling down on the handle with the same result and then searched the room for the telephone to call the front desk. There was no phone.
Morning came early and we headed toward Randall to visit The Old Creamery Quilt Shop (I featured them in 2016 here). We both groaned when we pulled into the parking lot as it was filled with cars AND a bus!
Welcome to the release of the seventh block for the Fall Into a QAL.

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We arrived at Bluffview Quilt Shop just a few minutes past opening time to pick up our passports and begin this hop. It’s our fifth year of hopping around the state. The gals at Bluffview are just as friendly now as they were when I featured them two years ago (read it here). They told me that this years Quilt MN Shop Hop fabric is going fast. I was able to convince a few yards of the swans on teal background to fly into the car and I quickly closed the hatch to keep them there.
