Having Fun with History

Irish Chain

Little Blue Basket

Barbara Fretchie Star

Next Door Neighbor

Here are the Civil War History quilt blocks from Barbara Brackman's blog that I finished this week.  Next Door Neighbor was a bear! (That sounds funny.) It came out with different measurements on each side, so I redid it by taking off the outer triangles and cutting new ones larger than the pattern measurements. I was then able to square-up the finished block to 8 1/2 inches. I'm really getting into this project, and at this rate will catch up soon. I have 10 done out of 28 weekly blocks that she started at the beginning of the year. 2011 is more than half gone already!