Bucket of Fun

Another fun sew day for Hands 2 Help (see the button on the side bar).  We had six of us on Saturday, for national quilting day,  with my bucket of fun strings.  For some it was the first time they created string blocks, for others it was their first time sewing.  Bob can and helped up, what a surprise that was when he showed up with his wife. Bob and I met when we were in college at Purdue.  I was a brides maid in Bob's wedding and that's were I met my wonderful husband.  Funny how things turn out.  And all these years later, we're still having fun together. But I can honestly say, I never imagined the say when we would be sewing together, definitely a wonderful twist to the day!

Bob, who would have every thought after all these years we'd be sewing together.  He did a great job

Liane, Bob's wonderful wife.  She was in a pastel mood, see if you can spot her blocks.

Veronika manned the ironing board, that was a whole lot of ironing, strings and blocks

Laurie and Ellen had strings flying on this side of the studio

Here's a look at the bucket of fun before, during and after

Bucket of fun before

strings everywhere in the sewing studio

more strings

Oh, look here they are, all in the nice neat 10 in blocks.  Love some strings

Bucket of fun after.  We have almost enough blocks completed for 1.5 quilts.  These are both going for Hands 2Help

I also have a few more Splendid Sampler blocks.

Block 10

Block 9 - I swear I did this one 3 or 4 times, this is just good enough!!

Block 11

I may redo block 11, not too happy with the right column of blocks. But then I may just say - eh, it's good.  I wish I would have been a bit more careful to not get the big green leaves in the white half of the HST.  We'll see if I get motivated enough to get it another whirl.  I do like this mystery so far, and 10% done and still keeping up.

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