Wish You Well October Block

 This morning I completed the October block in the Gail Pan Wish You Well block of the month.  I am happy to be caught up to date, since I started in August and had blocks January thru August to do when I joined.  But in a way, a little sad, as since I started as soon as I finished one block, I had another to work on.  These blocks are so much fun and now I have to wait for November to get the next one.

The tatted bookmark on the block was made by a dear friend, Mary Burn.  I asked her if she minded  if I used it in the quilt and she said that would be fine.  It will always remind me of Mary, Momma and my brother Michael.  All three did a lot of tatting, very beautiful work.

Castle Wall

 Today I worked on an English Paper Pieced block for our out-going guild President.  I wanted to do an EPP block, and guidelines for the block were had to be made with batiks and have an Hawaiian theme.  I picked colors that I thought were Hawaiian look, and embroidered a parrot in the center.  I looked up pictures of parrots to get an idea of the colors to use.  

Wish You Well blocks

I have been working on the Wish You Well block of the month trying to catch up and have completed the first nine blocks. I just joined this BOM by Gail Pan in August, so I had a lot of catching up to do. Since my last post, I have completed the following:

July

August

September

On the September block, there is a embroidery of a pear.  I was kind of curious about that image wondering if there was any significance to a pear, if it was a symbol of something.  I did do a little google search and found that in some cultures it signifies riches, mother and child, affection, comfort and/or peace.  I did post the question on the facebook page for those doing his BOM just to see if there was something more specific in Australia.

I have also been catching up on my work on the Cottage Grove quilt.  Here is what has been completed todate.  I have started working on the corner blocks that make a border around this section.