My daughter and fiance had stopped at Ivers in Seattle after flying back from the wedding.  And she thought she had gotten away from all the crazy ducks!

Number #10, KIM! Because, I decided to rate our fabulous weekend wedding and I gave it a 10!!

MARRIED!!  More to post later, but first I need to tend to my ducks, my garden, and life in general!

Because I’m crazy busy this week with my youngest daughter’s wedding, and because I am currently out of town at my nephew’s graduation, I think I’ll give away this fabulous vintage (if you call 1963 vintage!!) handstitched quilt block.  I’m not sure of the pattern because I’m such a random quilter and don’t know my patterns, but it doesn’t match my other faded out blocks.  This particular piece was kept in a sealed baggie for 50 years!!

Tell me about the wedding you last attended in the comments below.  Maybe I’ll get some new ideas!!  I’ll pick a winner on my daughter’s wedding morning next Saturday with some random number I’ll choose from some random event this week :-)  Good luck!!

WARNING, this will only excite my quilter friends out there, sorry duck lovers, but I have to show off my found treasure from Saturday’s garage sale-ing. Yes, I know it’s not a real word , sale-ing, but it’s what I say so I gotta use it!  And when I say vintage, it scares me a little because I was in this world back then.  Vintage is good, right?

One lesson I learned a long time ago is to always look in nondescript bags at garage sales!  Inside might be some of the best stuff you’ve ever seen.  My find was in a small, white, ugly bag with a .50 sticker on it!!!  Gotta look in that one….

This is the beginning.  At least 12 FINISHED blocks, yellow and white, all handstitched.  I’m a hand stitching fiend, so this is good!!!

And lots of partial blocks and pieces AND at least 2 yards of the yellow fabric.

I found the bright block in a sealed bag.  Guess it makes a difference to seal your work!

The best piece of this puzzle was finding this on the backside of some notes the quilter had made about the pattern…

But for me, this was the GOLD….

Because I’m so addicted to hexagons right now and can’t stop.  This only added to the problem!!

Can you believe it?? (only fellow quilters can answer this question!)

I enjoyed the treasure for awhile and then made myself put it all aside for later.  I’ve got a daughter’s wedding next week so I can’t EVEN be tempted!!  BTW, I’ll have a giveaway coming up. 

I think I’ll share something from this fabulous stash