Each quilt shop, in addition to creating a block for the shop hop, also made a quilt using all the blocks from the other shops. We saw several lovely, original quilts during the hop, but Elaine’s Quilt Block in Sandy had the most beautiful. It was a treasure map, with X marking the spot where gold doubloons lay hidden. The book Elaine’s had chosen was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. All around the shop were pictures of pirates with silly names. Heather was given a sheet of paper with the pirates’ faces. She and John raced all over (while I shopped) to fill in the names of the pirates so they could win a prize. I’m not sure which of us had more fun. The directions for this block state that it should be entirely paper pieced. That sounded like a challenge to me, so I took it. I constructed the block using only traditional piecing methods.
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