Sun Best ~ Goddard White Church

 Wallingford, KY, USA

found while covered bridge hunting in Kentucky

Quilt Shot Block #100~ Tic Tac Toe Game

17 inches

Tic Tac Toe Game

I cannot name this block "Tic Tac Toe" due to the fact there is a vintage block already by that name.

This is for playing Tic Tac Toe

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This block was made serendipity style.

2 inch strips were cut for the 9 block and black strips.

3½ inch strips were cut for the rest of the block.

As pieces were produced, the block grew as I added on.

There was no beginning planning drawn out in my grid notebook.

 All of the pieces were cut from scraps.

This means there were different numbers, lengths and colors of strips,

but all cut 3½ inches wide.

I didn't measure for length, I just cut till I "felt" I had enough.

Like a cook throwing together a stew without a recipe.

 Strips were sewn together at right angles like you do binding sometimes.

When the strip's seams were trimmed, triangles resulted which were then sewn together to make squares.

 There just happened to be 9 half square triangles. 

Paying attention to the black strip length,

I trimmed the HST to 2½ inch squares and sewed a very small quarter inch seam

& added red 2½" corner blocks.

To make the block comparable to the rest of the blocks going into this quilt,

I added another row of 3½ inch strips.

Game pieces shown in this past Tuesday's post will be used to play this simple game.

Other Related Post:

Quilt Shot Block #99~ Checkers

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Fun or Funny Fri Foto ~ Kentucky Covered Bridges- Valley Pike/Bouldin

 Valley Pike / Bouldin

Location: Germantown, KY
Today's shots by Mr. G

Lat. / Long.: N 38.674316   W 83.872156
Built in: 1864
Truss Type: Kingpost

Other related posts:

Fun or Funny Fri Foto ~ Kentucky Covered Bridges- Coville 

Fun or Funny Fri Foto ~ Kentucky Covered Bridges- Johnson Creek

Thoughtful Thinking Thursday #111 ~ Mailbox Companion

 What is your mailbox's companion?

Is it flowers, a sign, nothing.

(a drive by camera shot.)

Or, a representative of the cash crop you raise?

#Tobacco in Kentucky

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"THINK about it."

Wordless Wednesday #238 ~ Covered Bridge Fall Floor

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Game Pieces

          With the Checkers quilt block posted this past Saturday, there had to be some game pieces to play the game.  Making cloth game pieces provides light weight pieces easy to store with the quilt block.

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Tuesday Tutorial Teaser

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Update: In response to MGM's question in the comments below, 
this attachment was purchased separately. 
 It did not come with any of my machines.

 

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PicMonkey creating collages used on this page

 Photoscape for downsizing & watermarking photo

https://joysjotsshots.blogspot.com/2017/10/quilt-shot-block-99-checkers.html?m=1

Memory Mon 68~ One Room Schools

 close to Millersburg, KY, USA

When I was born, folks were still attending one room schools in my neighborhood of Kentucky.

Every single one room school I've seen sitting out in rural fields are all built exactly alike.

By the time I started school, they had all been closed in our county and maybe the state by about 2 years.

The opening of a new elementary school in my neighborhood, closed several one room schools.

Like education usually does, philosophy came full circle in the late 90s & early 2000 in Kentucky,

with the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA)

by putting at least 3 grades together in one classroom.

Although, by that time, I'd already taught 2 grades in one classroom for many years.

Now that's a whole new set of memories.