. . . and a giveaway! But first, let me show you my block!
I know that many of you are joining us on this Block of the Month adventure from Jacquelynne Steves. Isn't this a fun quilt?
My blocks are looking so summery with these fabrics from my stash. Check out the block center for this month -- a lovely cup of tea with a friendly butterfly who came to call!
I used a machine blanket stitch for the applique, except for some places where a straight stitch was a little easier to handle. On the picture below, you can see the stem of the daisy was backstitched by hand, after the rest of the center was completed. I love how it turned out!
Here is a peek at part of the block, showing how the colors are playing together. Even the navy, which I was worried about at first (grin) is looking just right!
After the center is done, these pink, yellow and orange pieces frame it perfectly:
And here is the completed block:
I hope that you will click on the link and stop in to see Jacquelynne, over at her blog. Don't forget to check out what the other Cozy Afternoon bloggers are showing you this week, too!
Here is our giveaway for July! Three lovely patterns! I have my eye on that Savannah Wool Runner pattern, myself!
Leave me a comment and let me know what your favorite summer-time food or drink is! Followers can leave a second comment, to increase your chances to win!
These Cozy Afternoon blocks go together so quickly -- if you haven't started yet, don't worry! Just click here to sign up and get started!
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Your applique is wonderful- cute cute block!
ReplyDeleteYour colors do work together well and the applique is great on your block. I love to drink homemade iced tea in the summer.
ReplyDeleteYour colors do work together well and the applique is great on your block. I love to drink homemade iced tea in the summer.
ReplyDeleteThis year I've been experimenting with shish ka bobs - yummy! Roasted marshmallows are also a favorite and sweet corn and tomatoes fresh from the garden. Now I'm hungry! :) your block is lovely and I love the way the dark blue makes the other colors just POP.
ReplyDeleteI love the stitchwork on your block! Drinking lots of homemade iced tea this summer.
ReplyDeleteYour blocks remind me of summer picnics. I love Watermelon! And seeing who can spit the seeds the farthest. I don't buy seedless watermelon because they aren't FUN! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYour block is very nice and I love the blanket stitching...my favorite drink is water, and I need to drink more of it...thanks for the chance to win the patterns, I really like the wool pattern..
ReplyDeleteLove your block. Favorite summer food is watermelon.
ReplyDeleteLove your block! My favorite summer food is watermelon and favorite drink is water, need lots of water in this Ohio heat and humidity while outside playing with horses.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer time food is ice cream. Love your block.
ReplyDeleteJudy
Very sweet! Love your colors.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful block! I like iced tea, cottage cheese and pineapple, or ice cream during the hot summer.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the block! Very cute. It's hard to choose, but if someone gave me sodium pentathol and put me under the lights and forced me to pick, I'd probably say strawberry lemonade is my favorite summertime drink.
ReplyDeleteLove your block. I am eager to start mine. In the meantime I will munch on watermelon and peaches. Not necessarily together...ha!
ReplyDeletelove this block. favorite summer foods have to be black cherries and ice cream! drinking, sun tea
ReplyDeletelove this block. favorite summer foods have to be black cherries and ice cream! drinking, sun tea
ReplyDeletelove this block. favorite summer foods have to be black cherries and ice cream! drinking, sun tea
ReplyDeleteI love your version of this block, so summery! Favorite summer food? Has to be watermelon!
ReplyDeleteLove how you have done this block! Favorite summer food? Cherries, ice cream and wine! (Not necessarily all at one time! )
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer food is strawberry shortcake. The addition of the hand stitching on the flower adds texture to the block. Navy is one of my favorite colors. Thanks for a chance in the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteDue to some dental surgery I have a new summer favorite food! Baked Cod in garlic butter! Omg, it melts in your mouth!
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ReplyDeleteI love peach ice tea to drink in the summer and for food, it has to be fresh corn on the cob!
ReplyDeleteI love frozen drinks! Frozen lemonade is so yummy!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite food in the summer is salad. I love the corn, avocado, tomato salad from Martha Stewart, but I add Feta Cheese to increase the creaminess.
ReplyDeleteYou can have the runner pattern, I will take the rest :)
I love salads in the summer with some grilled chicken tenders!! Love your block!
ReplyDeleteI am working on a quilt for a customer/dear friend, it is for her 1st GD that is due next month. I has taken me a bit of time to do her "Magical Fairies in Zleda's Garden! It should be done here in the next couple of weeks and I can really get down to doing Cozy Afternoon! I have some of the fabric cut for the first 3 blocks! Love the BOM this is my first one to try!! I love all 3 of the pattern's sew sew pretty!
ReplyDeletesweet tea! thanks for the chance
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job... love your tea cup!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite beverage is fresh mint from my garden for my mojito
ReplyDeleteFrozen drinks are so good in hot Texas summers! Thanks for this terrific opportunity
ReplyDeleteSun tea with fresh-grown mint is my favorite summertime beverage
ReplyDeleteSun tea with fresh-grown mint is my favorite summertime beverage
ReplyDeleteFresh Georgia peach homemade ice cream!
ReplyDeleteI love your block. It reminds me of summer. I love sun tea. My food would be anything fresh from my garden!
ReplyDeleteHomemade potato salad is definitely my favorite summer food. It. Goes great with all kinds of BBQ.
ReplyDeleteLove raspberry lemonade in the summer....so refreshing! Love your tea cup!
ReplyDeleteI love the colours in your block - reminds me of summer (whilst we are in the middle of winter here in Australia) I love watermelon salad and tequila sunrises in summer
ReplyDeleteI love to eat watermellon on the long hot days of summer.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower and I like the colors in your block.
ReplyDeleteI love frozen yogurt on a hot summer day.
ReplyDeleteLove your website.
Such a sweet block. I like to drink sweet ice tea in the summer. Sometime I add a little mint.
ReplyDeleteI love sweet iced tea in the summer.
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ReplyDeleteJacque, your block is so sweetly adorable! What a cute quilt to must be going to be. I will be off to check out that block link.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you completed your block!!
ReplyDeleteLinda Plank
Oops! I forgot to tell you my favorite summertime food! Strawberries and strawberry anything!
ReplyDeleteAnother cute block. Love your applique!
ReplyDeleteloving your applique summer food would be radishes from my garden xx
ReplyDeleteI love you block and my favourite is iced tea in the summer. tks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI also just signed up to follow your blog thanks again.
ReplyDeleteI like how the blue corner blocks accentuate the applique design. Thanksforthe chance to win!
ReplyDeleteYour block turned out great. I am working on the second one but hope to finish and get started on this one soon. They do really go together so easy and I love the tea themed designs. I did decide to go with machine applique on this one and I am loving it. My favorite summertime food is anything barbecued.
ReplyDeleteI love cucumber sandwiches in the summer with cukes from our garden.
ReplyDeleteI am loving all the FRESH vegetables from my garden and from friends gardens given to me. But I mostly LOVE Watermelon. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com
ReplyDeleteMost exciting things for me right now....just finished the NW Shop Hop and have 45 new fabrics to play with!!!
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ReplyDeleteAny and all of the fruits and vegetables available now -- the best think about summer
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My favorite summer food is definitely homemade ice cream...maybe topped with a nice port wine :)
ReplyDeleteLove your block!
I also followed you on facebook and bloglovin!
ReplyDeleteLOVE your color selections. I am still looking for the perfect fabrics for mine, but yours is just the type I am looking for. As for my favorite summer food it would have to be pasta salad. But I love Meatloaf any time of the year.
ReplyDeletemy favourite summer drink is called Clericot, and it is made in a jar, with a lot of ice, fresh diced fruits like peaches, apples, strawberrys, grapes, cherry...
ReplyDeleteI love fresh green beans from the garden with cornbread and home grown sliced tomatoes. I am from Tennessee
ReplyDeleteGreat block! I love quinoa and summer is a wonderful time to come up with cold summer recipes using quinoa. I love it with green onions, green olives, avocadio, a dash of olive oil and lots of fresh lime juice.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite summer foods is sweet corn with lots of salt and butter. Having banana pudding for dessert is also a must do.
ReplyDeleteLove how your block came out. I really love a nice tall glass of fresh lemonade in the summer. A nice burger, hot off the grill, goes perfectly with it for a meal. Yum! Now I'm getting hungry. LOL
ReplyDeleteI really like the colors in your block! They remind me of a summer day with a bright blue sky overhead!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer food is fresh berries!
being a southerner my fave summer drink is iced tea, but not sweet just a squeeze of lemon.
ReplyDeleteI am busy preparing for a big church fish fry where we feed about 4000 people.
ReplyDeleteWatermelon! It never tastes quite as sweet as on a hit summer day!
ReplyDeleteFavorite food is watermelon...drink is sweet tea
ReplyDeleteAnything cooked on the grill and iced tea.
ReplyDeleteI love iced tea, strawberries, and corn on the cob.
ReplyDeletewater melon, corn on the cob and lemonade
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summertime drink is iced coffee. Yum.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite summer time food is corn on the cob!
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My favorite summertime food would have to be fresh strawberries and peaches yummy! Pick them and eat them warm with sunshine and sweetness!
ReplyDeleteI love a good Sun Tea made from green jasmine tea. Yom, yom, yom. So refreshing, and good for us!
ReplyDeleteI love corn on the cob and iced chai tea.
ReplyDeleteLooking great!! I love this BOM.
ReplyDeleteHum, my favourite summertime food? .... Foods, you mean. There's no way I can choose just one. I love fresh corn on the cob, squash cooked with Vidalia onions, watermelon, butter beans, juicy tomatoes, & fried okra.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer time food is fresh truly vine ripe local tomatoes yum!
ReplyDeleteFRESH bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches with FRESH corn on the cob!!! then if it worked out strawberry shortcake or peach cobbler for dessert!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer food is Watermelon...I love watermelon and could eat my weight in it! :) and home grown tomatoes, and corn on the cob.. can not choose just one... Love your Block..
ReplyDeleteFrogs are an all time fave of mine along with the broccolli, cauliflower, tomato, mushroom, avocado salad with Italian dressing.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy cold foods in summertime. Shrimp Salad is one of all time favorites. I also love fresh from the garden tomato and mayonnaise sandwiches with salt and black pepper.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite drink is iced tea with all kinds of different flavors. I also love getting the big fresh peaches and eating them right from the box.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite summer drink is a coconut flavoured milkshake. Yummy.
ReplyDeleteI love iced coffee!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summer food would be my garden maters in a fresh salad with homemade blue cheese dressing!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful block! Your work is so perfect! My favorite summer food is watermelon!
ReplyDeleteI love all the fresh fruits and veggies that are available at the farmers market.
ReplyDeletehamburger with homemade onion rings - ok that is my favorite food all year round :) Leigh K.
ReplyDeleteFavorite summer food is fried green tomatoes! My favorite drink is iced tea.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing another beautiful block. And I love salads in the summer, good old green salads with maybe chicken strips added and honey mustard dressing. makes me hungry just thinking about it.
ReplyDeleteI love iced sun tea as well as fruit and salads in summer
ReplyDeleteMy favorite summertime food is chilled watermelon wedges and favorite drink would be iced tea (decaf).
ReplyDeleteThat is the most adorable block Jacque! It makes me want to go and brew a cuppa. :)
ReplyDeleteOur favorite summer time food is fresh caprese salad. And drink is honey laveder lemonade.
Definitely following you and have you in my sidebar too!
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to do all 3 versions of the quilt....(love your applique). My favorite summer-time food is WATERMELON!!! Only in the summer can I get a good, sweet one....and nothing says summer to me like a watermelon. I think it goes back to my childhood----when a watermelon was a treat.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty block; the colours are so sunny and fresh, just right for summer. My favourite summer food is mixed salad with a home-made vinaigrette dressing and best summertime drink is iced tea..
ReplyDeleteFresh peaches and lemonade. I love this BOM.
ReplyDeleteMy Summer food has to be tomatoes red, yellow,purple,and striped. I love your third block. Thanks for being part of this giveaway, have a great week.
ReplyDeleteThe applique is an inspiration. I though I would just piece or maybe find an embroidery design. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteHey I love this BOM and my favorite summer food is lassi a yogurt drink. Thanks for this opportunity. -wilma
ReplyDeleteTart lemonade with gingersnaps are my favorite summertime treat! A perfect break from quilting away the days in my sewing room!
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