Pillowcase Dresses for Peru

I made this little dress yesterday while waiting for potatoes to bake. Many of you will remember my dress drive last year. I want to take a few more with me this year to Peru , just not quite as many.  

Thank you to those who have already sent some!

It all started with this photo of fellow team member in Guatemala. I knew if I went again I wanted to bring some with me!

In Bolivia I got to hand them out personally to the little girls I met. 

I remember this little girl very vividly. She was living in the village that only had contaminated water. This was one of the water well projects your money contributed to!

In a few short months I'll be heading to Peru and would love to distribute more dresses. If you want to make one or a few, I'd be thrilled!

Click HERE for many links to directions. I found Nancy Notions to be the one I liked the best.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity!

Friday Folly!

 I'm going to start with a little quilty news, then share a little of my vacation. 

I brought this basket, but left the background! A lot of good that did me, huh?! It's ready to go now. 

 Before I left, my friend Linda,  mailed me her "orphan" blocks. These do not look like orphans to me! Thank you Linda!!

 Here's my Instagram for the week. A lady who works at the bank (and I see almost everyday for work) asked if I'd go on vacation with her. She is divorced and doesn't want to go by herself. (makes complete sense to me!) We've been making plans for several months and Saturday morning early we took off for Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands in Washington State.
As a kid we used to take the ferry to many of the islands so it was fun to go see some of these areas again after all these years. Here are a few highlights.

 The weather was fantastic each and every day we were there! It was amazing! Here we are on the ferry which was getting us to our destination.

 We stayed in this gorgeous inn at EastSound, centrally located and easy to get to everything.

Here is the view from the highest point on the island. 

 We hiked around this lake. 

Went kayaking.

 Went whale watching and saw a pod of orcas!

And after 5 days this welcomed us home. 

Back to the desert, back home.

And after 5 days of travel with someone I didn't know, I consider ourselves friends!

Have a lovely weekend. 

Porch Quilt Month 4

My watermelon look about the way I cut a watermelon! Shaky, uneven, different sizes...... That's why I love primitive!

Here are Cathy S cute blocks. She used wool for the seeds- too cute!

 Debby D sent me her photos. Love her basket! Such great prints.

And watermelons!!

I'm going to be out of town, so I'll do my best to add your photos. If you can link up to your blog, instagram or flickr, please do it!

You ready for next month? I hope I'm not going to scare ya'll off!

We are going to do 3 flower vases. 

 Block 3

I'm going to improvise and add an applique where there is this huge 8x8 piece of floral fabric. 

This is Block 9

Block 10- the floral piece here is 14x14! 

I don't know that I'll have an applique for the floral parts, but I'll attempt to get the 3 flower vases, basket, star and moon appliqued.  On your mark, get set, stitch!

An InLinkz Link-up

First Friday, Second Friday!

Today is the second Friday but I'm sharing Quiltwork's First Friday exhibit! It is always good, but this month I really enjoyed it! (must be because I missed a month)

 Tina Witherell made these adorable wee quilts.

 1/4" half square triangles!

The group exhibit was

Quilter's Sew-ciety of Redding, "Feather Our Nest With Quilts".  So creative and fun!

Here's my Instagram feed for this week. Tuesday night my daughter came to town and we all went to Bend for Jackson Browne! He was so good! Trying to amp up my running a bit to get ready for a half marathon at the end of September.

We are sharing our watermelon blocks from the Front Porch quilt of Jan Patek on Monday! Next month's blocks to be revealed then too.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Lori