A Delightful Package & UnWonky Triangles

I really should be working on other things, but these little triangles have been so calling to me since I started on them. If you have just joined, I got these in a bag along with some other vintage quilt blocks at a sale in August. They were sewn into blocks that I think were supposed to be pinwheels, but they were so crooked on account of the triangles being all different sizes, and no real pattern as far as fabric prints, it was hard to tell what they were supposed to look like. Many of the blocks were already partially taken apart, so I just kept right on going. I finally got them all picked apart, and now I am sorting them and figuring out what to do.
My goal is to keep as many of the original triangles as possible.. but make them work together.. Un-Wonkily. I matched up enough big and small, print and solid, to make 42 double pinwheel blocks.

And by adding some white of my own, and a few more triangles cut from my own vintage solids, I think I'll be able to come up with a small quilt with pinwheels in the middle, and flying geese along the borders. Two pinwheels got put together last evening. They are about 6 1/4" square, so finished they will be 5 3/4".

The rest of them will make flying geese to go around the edges..
These are the solids from my stash that I'm going to add to make some of the pinwheels...

And I really can't believe how nice other people are, and how lucky I am to meet them. I came across a new blog "I Love Retro Things" through Vintage Thursday Things that I started doing a few weeks ago, so of course I signed it because we like to comment on blogs, right? Didn't even realize she was giving something away and that by signing I had entered the drawing. But that was the case, and I won! This is the package that came in the mail yesterday. How could I open it and tear the butterflies..??

I live in the US, and this came all the way from New Zealand.. so this is a very special treat. And pretty stuff!
A candle, some tea in a pretty card, Cadbury Milk Chocolate to have with it!..yum! a hand polished sea shell, a silk tissue cover to take along in my purse.. (I will USE this!), and a journal! I am so delighted with everything. Thank you so much Amy!

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You would think that after writing over 100 posts, I would be getting speedier at this, but I'm not. It simply takes me forever to gather my thoughts, take pictures, remember everything I want to say and show, and then write it all here. Does anyone else have trouble with this? Probably not. I am just slow. Some blogs I read are SO good.. funny and witty and full of things to think about. I do think about things all day long, and tell myself.. "Oh.. I will say that in my next blog, that is so funny".. or "..meaningful." But then I get here and most of it is all gone. And by the time I'm done writing nothing, my day is gone too. Oh well.. I guess I won't worry about it, and leave the wit to others. :-)




Ulla is a sweet one. Not that I really "collect" badges.. but I thought this was so sweet of her to notice I didn't have this one yet, and sent it to me.

I like that it says "Must See".. not must read. VERY appropriate.. and true. Thank you Ulla! :-D There aren't any rules to this one, so I am going to pass it along to these folks... because they truly are good reads IMO...
Musings From My Soul
A Simple Quilter
Lit and Laundry (a MUST READ)
and Freda's Hive