The April A to Z Blog Challenge is an annual blogging event in which participants blog every day (except Sundays) one post for each letter of the alphabet for the entire month. My theme for the year will be “Quilts and Ozark Slang.” So gitchur coffee or sodapop, grab a pilluh, and sit a spell.
The letter today is B.
In quilting, you have a few choices when cutting out your pieces.
- There are rotary cut pieces that allow you to cut very quickly and efficiently with a large ruler and rotary cutter.
- There are paper pieced blocks that you lay fabric over in a certain order to sew onto. Paper backing is then removed once the block is complete.
- Crazy quilters lay fabric pieces at random and sew them together in a pleasing form before embellishing them with fancy stitching.
- This quilt used templates to use as the guide to cutting each piece. And I do mean Each, And, Every, piece. It is without a doubt, the most time consuming method. But Soooooo worth the end result.
The Finished block:
Todays Word:
Bawl – When I recently used this word, it raised the eyebrows of my daughter. (She’s getting very good at pointing out my use of words lately.) So I explained it’s probably from farmers hearing calves and other young livestock crying for their mothers. They “bawl”. So she, being the research queen, looked it up and found this information.
The word “bawl” started in the Middle English from Medieval Latin and is also Germanic.” So with the rich German heritage in this area, it has been most likely passed down through generations. Example: “Don’t go bawlin’ about it! You’ll have to learn sometime.” Back in the 60’s, my own babysitter was very fond of this word. Apparently, it stuck.
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I’m familiar with the word bawl although I don’t use it much myself. It’s a while since I’ve bawled my eyes out. I love the way you show in detail how the quilt is made.
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Glad you haven’t bawled for awhile😉 not a good thing usually. And thank you!
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I’ve never given a second thought to the word bawl, of course Great Grandma Davis was a German immigrant. ❤
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I had a Great Grandma Davis😊 immigrant as well. She arrived in 1857 so actually a great great lol. Thanks for dropping in.
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Love it when people write “balling” my eyes out 🙄 My daughter did it once in a social media post in early high school and I had to gently explain that that wasn’t the image she wanted to project…. 😭
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It just sounds more dramatic lol
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The quilt has a very interesting pattern. Nice job!
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Thanks! I only had to redo a section once. Forgot to check it twice 🙄
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I haven’t heard the word bawl in a long time. It’s so interesting to see how words develop. The broken arrow block came out really nice. Weekends In Maine
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Glad it sparked a memory. 😊 and thank you!
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