Romance & Robbery

Over a year ago I won a pattern giveaway from Cathy who blogs at Hooked on Primitives. I loved the heart with the little circles and hooked it up quickly, but I could never find the right kind of old bobbin to mount it on for display like she did. I liked the shape so much that I made a second one with a different hooked design of wavy lines. 

Last week I finally just sewed the openings closed and made them into tiny little pillows. I grabbed an old tool box and gathered all my other little hooked pieces to display together inside of it - hence my new header picture.

I pulled out another UFO the other day that has been hanging around for probably ten years - a quilt block named Robbing Peter to Pay Paul. This had been my on-the-go hand applique project and once the 8" blocks were all made they just sat in a bag because I couldn't decide how to sew them together. 

Here are the two different blocks - - -

- - - and the borders.

I finally figured out a good way to set them when I saw this beautiful quilt that Barbara had shared on her blog My Joyful Journey. Her's is scrappy - which I totally love - and putting the blocks on point with a different color for the side setting blocks really grabbed me.

Sure feels good to have this quilt top finished and ready to be quilted.