It rained off and on all day today, a nice soaking in kind of rain in my area – other areas had downpours. I’m glad we had the better kind. Also and this is so unusual for August our high temperature happened about an hour ago – 70 degrees!! 
normally at this time of evening it is still in the mid 80′s as it was it was 66 for most of the day. That is so nice — but crazy this is August after all.
Between last night and today I got 4 more “Insanity” blocks quilted and I am partly 
done working on a “Insanity Revisited” block but it isn’t finished so I didn’t take a photo of that one. This one on the left are blocks 4 and 5 and the ones on the right are 6 and 7. Half way done with this row! it is moving right along now that I am back to work on it.
I have been really looking over the patterns and the book for the Little Brown Bird as I mentioned the other day and though I like it I wonder if it isn’t too much? If you know 
what I mean – it is so full of designs. I am wondering what it would be like if instead of the blocks that have 4 designs in them if I enlarge the pattern to have just 1 design in each of those areas and just pick and choose which ones I use? It is so fancy the way it is!! I would like the challenge though. I know I saw some place someone had made this quilt but changed the design up a little in that she had left some of the blocks out also – does anyone know a link to it? I can’t find it. I was sure I had bookmarked it. I will keep looking but if anyone has seen this quilt designed just a little differently let me know. I would like to see several versions if I can before I get started on it (not sure when that will be). I’m pretty sure the picture I saw was on someone’s blog.
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Hi Karen-
I misplaced your email, but wanted to let you know that I received the quilt tops and the wall hanging, they are gorgeous! I am hoping to get them quilted next week sometime before we go. Thanks so much for your generosity and good luck and your new quilt. That looks like a fun challenge, but I am sure you will do a beautiful job.
Take care.
Judi
Certainly an amazingly detailed quilt. Think it would be way too much for me, but I know you could do it! I think your idea of only one design in each square is a good one.
That’s just to much for me! It’s a beautiful quilt karen! But is has so many things! This is really a piece of art! But i also think that you can do this just as it is! And i would love to see you working on this precious!
I pulled the LBB book out when you mentioned it yesterday. It sure is pretty…wonder when I’ll start it…maybe next year. I’m going to attempt the whole thing, I do so love a challenge LOL. Have you tried Googling to find the site?
Crispy
I love those blue and white blocks you put in which make the more colourful ones stand out.
Don’t talk too much of the weather. In Ontario, at least to the south there have been tornados, and torrential downpours too. We got the rain, which sank one of our little boats. What a summer for sure!
Yes Crispy I have googled it but the only one that comes up is the one shown in the book. I have only seen one that is slightly different and she used a different block for the center that is very pretty and maybe her own design or something she found, everything else was the same. I know I saw a photo somewhere of the quilt that was a bit different and really liked it. I will not be starting this one for awhile so will still look and try to decide how I want to make it.
glad the quilts will work out for you Judi – have a fun trip to Romania
Oh Karen that is LBB quilt is gorgeous!!!
So glad you are making such progress on the Insanity quilt!
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someone just emailed me a picture of the best of show at the Plano, TX quilt show and now I realize it is the same quilt but with a dark background.
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I wonder if there is a Yahoo group for LLB…I know alot of people at the old, barely functioning group Appliquelovers used to talk about the pattern.
I think I would definitely use one of the four patterns enlarged in each spot…the four together are almost a quilt in themselves! and maybe are a little bit lost in the large quilt.
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