All On A Saturday!

Saturday was our wrap up of our Scrappy Mountain Majesties retreat workshop!

It works so well to break a workshop into hands-on hours in the morning, giving everyone the opportunity to do other things in the afternoons, whether it be going to hit up a quilt shop or two, take a nap, take a walk, relax on the porch -

There is time for everything!

Scrappy Mountain Majesties is one of my oldest tutorials from the Free Patterns tab and continues to be so popular because the opportunities and variations are so endless.

For our "Quilter's Yoga" morning, we moved the extra cutting table out of the front foyer and pooled some blocks together to demo some simply layouts and the easiest way to get there.

Here is a basic lanterns layout.

If you pull the furthest right hand block off ot the even numbered rows, slide all of the blocks over one position and put that block that you removed at the far left of the row, you'll see zig zag mountains come to be.

If you put everything back to the lanterns position and just flip the blocks in the even numbered rows, you get mirror image mountains.

Put everything back to basic lanterns, and then flip the upper right and lower left of each lanterns and you get this!

Or you can start in the center, build out and go barn raising!

You can also just do half-lanterns.

Set horizontal instead of vertical they look like fountains!

Some projects reached quilt top finish!

Some are taking shape on the design wall as layouts were decided upon.

So many possibilities!

On the right - Potato Chip blocks make great Leaders & Enders!

Zig Zag Mountains are definitely a favorite!

And more blocks are sliced, stacked, and ready to sew!

Saturday even gave us time for a dirt road hike!

The dogwoods are starting to bloom.  Leaves on trees are starting to emerge.  I love this time of year so much!

Cows and cow babies below!

That one with the little white face - oh, my heart!

Something from behind the scenes from last week:

I had made a query on the Threads App wanting to know what people were doing with the Bonne Maman jam jars because they are just too cute to toss into the recycle bin.

I mean, they are octagonal in shape, and the gingham lid is perfect!

I didn't expect my post to go viral.

I didn't expect to get an email from the TODAY Show's online Food section but I ended up with a lovely phone interview with Heather and they have featured my post and some of the responses in the TODY Show's online magazine! You can check it out HERE.

Using my Bonne Maman jar to hold hexie papers at my couch-side sewing station.

It was a fun little quilt-adjacent interview and it's interesting to see what others have done with these jars.

Do you save jars? Any particular kind? What do you do with them?

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

I've been without machine project for over a week.

I'm still not sure what to do with myself, but as the weather is really turning out nice right now, I'd
kind of rather be outside...

Is this normal?

Have a marvelous Monday, everyone -