“Zippity Zinnia, zippity-ay . . . ” doesn’t the name of my block just make you want to sing?
I was still playing with cutting designs from folded paper (see my block Snowman Farm from 100 Blocks Volume 2). Only this time I wanted to create a secondary design in the corners when blocks are pieced next to each other. The black and white triangles sitting opposite from each other got me started towards my goal. The squares in the block corners make four-patches when they meet. I wanted the four-patches to each have four colors and thought about how to do that for a scrappy look.
I decided to keep the four corner squares in one block the same fabric as the background with the intention of changing the background fabric in each block. All of the greens are randomly assorted. Here’s what four blocks together look like. You’ll see that I extended that secondary design into a pieced border.
As you look through the blocks in the issue, remember this trick about coloring opposite corners to create secondary designs!
Now I just need to make this quilt in time to hang in the 1o0 Blocks Volume 3 gallery exhibit at our office this summer. If you’re near Golden, CO during regular business hours from July-September, 2011, stop by to see the gallery quilts photographed in the magazine, plus more! If you’re near Golden, CO from now until the end of June stop by to see the Sightlines exhibit from the Studio Art Quilt Associates.
Sneak Peek of a product review coming in July/Aug ’11: At Quiltmaker we recently discovered Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Scissors. This pair of 4″ micro-serrated scissors will cut all the way to the tips of the blades without fraying the fabric. They’re great for cutting fusible applique designs with lots of turns and corners (like this zinnia).
Giveaway: So, are you still singing “Zippity Zinnia, Zippity-ay . . . ” with me? Tell me in a comment by midnight Mountain time on Friday May 6: what song always sticks in your head? I’ll pick a winner who will receive a copy of 100 Blocks Volume 3 AND this pair of scissors. QuiltSue (Comment #18) is the lucky winner! Congratulations.
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I am currently rehearsing for a production of Fiddler on the Roof so “Sunrise, Sunset” is always floating around in my head! Thanks for the chance to win – the scissors and the magazine look great!
Right now, I have a 5 year old preschool who learn a song call “Tootie tat tat”. When he starts singing it, it sticks with me the rest of the day.
For some reason I can’t get the Abba song out of my head “Take a Chance on Me” ….. Oh now look, you’ve got me singing it again!!!!!
My daughter loves the Disney film, Tangled and we listen to the soundtrack in the car. There’s one song (I have a dream) which sticks in my head that drives me banana’s. Oh no! It’s started again.
Lady Gaga “Born this Way” because it is on the pop radio station I listen to on the way to work. My husband also has an alarm on his phone that plays a rock band version of “Black Betty” and that will stick in my head for days.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Love the block, it’s so much fu to cut a design like that. “Ballroom Blitz” by The Sweet runs through my head, as does “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” by the Clash. Both have lots of energy which are great when one is sewing!
“sugar, sugar” by the Archies. Hated it then, hate it now…. Yet it keeps playing in my head
My mom always sang to me “you are my sunshine, my only sunshine…” and I am always humming that tune!
For some reason the Disney song “kiss the girl” stays in my head! thanks for the lovely giveaways!!
Thanks for the tip about color selection for the secondary designs. I’m an “oldie’s” kind of gal. “Bridge over troubled water” by Bread is in my heart and mind all the time. Thanks for the giveaway!
I never sing this song except when I’m in the car by myself, but once I’m alone I sing, “Dear Lord I will be a witness if you will help my weakness….” It’s a song from my growing up years long long ago that’s stuck with me.
Oh my! I love this. I’m not sure I have the applique skills to do it justice, but I loved it from the moment I clicked on the page – even before I saw the secondary pattern. This is just beautiful.
My grandaughter has been singing You are My Sunshine to me lately and she gave me a music box with that song on it so that I would say is the song for me.
Looking forward to seeing directions in volume 3 for this block. Many songs stick in my head, but one of my favorites is “Any Dream Will Do” by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
One of my friends has “When the Saints go marching in” as her ring tone, so I hear it often and then find myself singing it in the car, cooking supper, pretty much everywhere! That’s not a problem for me though because it always lifts my spirits! Thanks for the chance to win – I LOVE those scissors!!!!
Wow, I love that block! As for songs, why is it always the ones you don’t like that get stuck? When my husband has a bad song stuck in his head he always feels the need to “share” and then it gets stuck in my head too! I don’t want to think too hard about specific songs for fear they will be with me all day! Thanks for the chance to win – I’m loving this blog tour!
My phone’s ringtone is Abba’s “Dancing Queen” and once the phone rings, that songs with me for the rest of the day!
“Gitchee Gitchee Goo means that I love you” from Phineas and Ferb. It is the ringtone on my phone when my Hubby calls.
Very interesting block! Like it! A song which often sticks in my mind is: I am singing in the rain..! Funny, really don’t know why, just makes me feel happy! Thanks so much!
Great block, though I’m not sure I’d want to tackle it – lots of cutting, lots of edges to fasten down one way or another. I almost always have one song or another stuck in my head and it’s usually one I’ve heard recently. Currently it’s “21 Guns” by Green Day. This one gets stuck a lot, but I love it.
My son loves 3 little birds (Don’t worry be Happy) by Bob Marley – so that is always running through my head…Today he will end up learning Zippity Do Dah or should I say Zippity Zinnia! Thanks for all the fun!
Maria
Show tunes always stick in my head. Today it’s “Rainbow High” from Evita ever since I sat down to do my makeup. Love the block!
At home, I usually get stuck on “The hills are alive…with the Sound of Music” from the movie. I work at a school and quite often I find myself humming either “The Wheels on the Bus” or the “Chicken Dance” song!
Does the Oreo cookies jingle count as a a song? If not, my ex used to always whistle “If I Only Had A Brain”. It became his ringtone, and always floats in my head (and makes me laugh)…so true!
PS–LOVE everything about your block….alternating colors, secondary design, boldness, details…..
My daughter is just learning to talk and so she goes around the house yelling MAAA MAAAA!!!! And I just can’t help following it with OOOOhhhhhhh. Seriously, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is like one of my least favorite songs but thanks to my daughter I end up singing it all the time!!
Your block is outstanding. I’m humming “If You’re Happy and You Know it” a lot these days. I would love those scissors for applique. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Mary
After listening to Carrie Underwood’s rendition of “How Great Thou Art” on YouTube recently, I cannot get it out of my head!
Aren’t all the blocks just so pretty. A song that easily comes into my head is My God Is An Awesome God by Mercy Me. Hope I win that great book. Thanks
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory always runs in my head.
Right now, Zippity is stuck in my head
Beautiful block! Normally, You Are My Sunshine is one I repeatedly sing in my head as I sang it to my daughters as babies all the time and it still makes me happy. Thank you so much and good luck on finishing your quilt in time for the display!
It would have to be the lullaby – Morning Town Ride by the Seekers – it pops up all the time -Wonderful giveaway and a great opportunity. Beautiful block. Judy C
Lots of songs tend to stick in my head, but right now (thanks goodness!) none of them come to mind.
all I can say is WOW, and I sure would need those scissors!
I don’t normally have a song stuck in my head, but now all I can do is hear zippity do da! Love the block and how the corners make that secondary pattern! And the scissors would be a bonus!
“Don’t worry, be happy”. I would also love a pair of those scissors.
Love applique but like to do needleturn and think this would put you in the funny farm but there are going to be some wonderful blocks in this mag.
Usually get commercial jingles caught in my cobwebs. The idea of using cut paper designs is new to me and is a “must do”.
I have been wanting to get a pair of Kay’s scissors – thanks for the review. Love the positive/negative layout of your block.
Today it’s “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” since it is nice and sunny. A real break from all the rain we have been having.
Love the block – what a novel idea! Would really like to have the book and scissors.
The song that sticks in my head is usually the last one I hear. The scissors look great and so does your block.
Songs are always stuck in my head, and they’re different every day. It drives me crazy! LOL! Today: Sugar, Sugar from the Archies. Often It’s Mr. Sandman, or songs from The Sound of Music.
You asked for it: My least favorite earworm: Achy Breaky Heart
don’t blame me now if you are singing it.
I usually have the LAST song I heard on the radio, in the car or at my desk, stuck in my head !!!
Love your block & the colors, and would love to receive these scissors and the 100 Blocks book !!
Haha! Whenever my daughter wants to “get” me, she’ll sing a snippet of “You Ain’t never had a Friend Like Me” from Disney’s Aladdin! She knows it will stick with me for days! LOL We’ll go around the house trading lines of it! Good memories! Thanks for the chance to win!
PS … Thanks for the giveaway !!
This week the song that’s going ’round and ’round in my head is Carole King’s song “You’re as beautiful as you feel”. . .
What a great block, and a great name! Congrats on getting in the book!
I try and run or walk every day and it seems like the last song on my ipod is what I sing the rest of the day. That isn’t a good thing when it happens to be someone strange like Lady Gaga! LOL
Ooooh, i hate those “earworms”–for me it’s whatever the last song i heard. Very cool block.
A song I made up when my kids were little and they used to ask me why I was always sitting at the kitchen table with those papers. I would sing, “Can’t pay my telephone bills, can’t pay my automobiles…I can’t tell you why…when I last saw you you were gone…” Guess you’d have to be there. Thanks for the giveaway.
Can’t name just one song that sticks in my head. The juke box in my head keeps changing. “How Great Thou Art” kept me singing after Carrie and Vince sang it b-4 Easter this year. My mom and I used to harmonize “You are my Sunshine” driving with my father in a potato truck back in the good ol’ days. Have to share that memory…I like the secondary pattern idea and hope to win the Magazine! Hopping as fast as I can.
Recently I’ve been listening to books and songs have not been sticking in my head. I love music and do not consider that a good thing, lol. I can’t pick up radio where I live, and it’s not so good in the car either. I don’t spend much time in the car anyway. I’ve not bought a new cd in ages, except for Christmas music. Occasionally something from TransSiberian Orchestra’s Lost Christmas Eve comes out at the least expected moments. I think my internal radio is on seek!
Your block is lovely, and thanks for the design info too. It is nice when you (designers) give us a sneek peak into your heads as to the thought process in your creations.
love it! congrats!
Very neat block. Thank you for the information about your offices in Golden, Co. I have been there and want to go again soon. So many good things.
Nothing lately. With my memory, if it’s not happening right now, I won’t remember later.
Very pretty block and quilt – sort of an oriental quality to it (makes me think of chrysanthmums). I usually listen to classical music when I’m quilting, and I have a good time singing along with familiar music. Your block writeup just stuck “Zippity Zoo Dah” in my brain at this instant!!
My mother hated “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight?” Wonder why. My brother did the same thing to “Scarlet Ribbons”.
Love you block and chance to win. Songs don’t usually stick, but I sing along with my granddaughter (and dance) when she sings along with the songs on computer in the afternoons here.
great block …make me want to sing…and zippy doo da the block make me think of the flower festival in disney
Today it is the last song I heard on the radio. Radio? What is that? It is Stealy Dan and “Still the one”.
Every day I have a different song in my head, depending on what I hear on the radio while driving to work! Today it is “Riptide”, which was on a rock station, really love this song. Hey, this would make a good name for a quilt block, wouldn’t it??
“Who let the dogs out” because every dog in my neighbor hood is barking non stop day and night lately. woe is me.
Have been looking for a scissors like those. Something sharp.
cool block, thanks for the chance to win. Today’s song is “Ice Ice Baby. Do you hear it? Annoying isn’t it? LOL
“Amazing Grace” sticks in my head. I have sung it to all 4 of my granddaughters as a lullaby and they love it.
Muppets “manuh-manuh” – not sure how you spell it…
You are always on my Mind!! Stuck in my head due to American Idol last night. But it works while Icreate granddaughters quilt for HS graduation. I love the blocks.. and each one gives me inspiration for a quilt. Have you ever bought material.. and thought this is to wonderful to cut/ a work of art.. then it goes into the most wonderful quilt with YOUR heart added to it??
Hey Jude.
I always have my cd player playing while I am sewing. Sometimes the same cd will play over and over again because I would turn it off before the end of the cd and the same cd would play again when I would turn it on again. So the song/songs that I would repeat in my mind would be the song that is repeated over and over again. Love country, oldies, Jim Brickman, Yanni, and Josh Groban music to listen to while sewing depending on what I am sewing; the more concentration needed the softer the music.
Fabulous pattern potential in your block, June. Fancy, a pair of scissors that cuts all the way along the blade. Wow, that must be wonderful for accuracy and real nice to use generally. No intrusive song or otherwise in my head today. In fact I even tried to make one up because I felt like singing, and couldn’t think of any tunes or lyrics (my car radio is not working). I tried to amuse myself briefly but not for long because even that wasn’t happening. It’s nice to listen to children sing their own songs if you are priveleged to hear them. They can be so spontaneously delightful and sweet to the ear. Wish I was a bit more like that.
I am throughly enjoying this blog tour and spending way too much time checking the blogs each day and still don’t get to them all!
The song that sticks in my mind is “God Bless America”. Silly isn’t it but there is a reason. Years ago I brought my husband a “statue” of a soldier in camo (my husband was in the Army at the time) and the soldier is holding a bugle to his mouth. When you press a button “God Bless America” starts to play (tune only) and the soldier sways and bends his knees to the music. My 2 year old grandson loves to press the button and we then sing God Bless America. Of course he doesn’t know all the words but tries to sing with us. Whenever he comes to visit he asks for “America” and then goes down to the family room and carries the soldier upstairs so we can hear it a million times!
Susan R.
“Life is a highway, and I’m going to drive it all night long,” is the song currently going through my head. This block looks very hard, but I bet you have an easier way to construct it than what I’m thinking! Congrats!
How about zippity do da, zippity day, my oh my what a wonderful day …. I am so excited that the new issue of 100 blocks is out! My last issue is totally dog eared from use. I have a feeling this issue will be well used too.
just a wunderful block i guess u just have to sing to do that block .thanks
I’m thinking it’s the “Happy Birthday” song, since today is my birthday! Great block. thanks for sharing.
My granddaughters love to do the “ittsy bittsy spider” with all the motions — and it stays forever in my head. …but, I know these days will pass, so I enjoy it, while I can. …and, I love the way you’ve designed the block.
Oh what a beautiful morning!! thanks to all the designers for so much inspiration!!
The song varies with the day but usually whatever was practiced at our bell choir that week! Nice block: I love zinnias!
What a fascinating block.
I get stuck on ” Good morning” by Debbie Reynolds.
I used to sing it to my kids in the morning to wake them up. They didn’t always appreciate it. lol
I have grown zinneas in my garden–neat block!
I am so easily song-influenced! I swear I have no brain power to ignore them…now, at this moment it’s all about Zippity Do Dah, Zippity Yay, My oh my what a wonderful day!
My favorite each day comes from my 3 year old granddaughter, who is always singing “If Your Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands’. to see the smile on her face is so rewarding. I hope you can sing the same each day. Your block is so refreshing, thanks for sharing.
Love your block and reading through the comments has made me think of “You are my sunshine”
My song is “Somewher Out There” especially on moonlit nights. Great block!
I’m listening to Carole King’s Tapestry again after so many years. So Far Away is such a poignant song now my two oldest kids are living away from home. Keep finding myself humming that song..
My song is “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart. I like the 70′s version that is slowed down and not so fast. Used it for my wedding, oh my, what memories!!!! Your block is very youthful!!
Would love to win a coffee mug but also enjoy all the news about quilting every day.
usually the first song I hear of the day sticks, Went to a showing if Jesus Christ Superstar just before Easter and have been listening to the soundtrack on my way to work so I’d have to say Hosanna, or I don’t know how to love him.
Zinnia one of my favorite flowers! Can’t wait for the directions!
After attending a James Taylor concert last summer “Sweet Baby James” stuck in my head for weeks!
This would be a great block to play with the reverse images. Song of the day is “Proud to be an American” by Lee Greenwood. If that song doesn’t make you feel proud, I don’t guess any would.
Wonderful block! My go-to song in my head is always “Jingle Bells”
One song that sticks is “Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain”. I enjoy every version I’ve ever heard. Thanks for the giveaway.
Oh, I get songs stuck in my head all the time. Usually it is a song that I hear on the radio in the morning…I can’t think of one right now…. Love all of today’s blocks.
Ok I’m oficially going to have a heart attack, as well I’m having a super blaaaaaaaaaast with this blog tour partay!!!!!!. Hmmm about a song… let me think… “Some guys have all the luck”, sung by Rod Stewart
Right now the theme from “Wallace and Gromit” get stuck in my head on a daily basis since my toddler sings it every 5-10 minutes.
Thanks for the giveaway.
jennhgray at gmail.com
I have had bad luck of having the “Friday Friday” song by Rebecca black I think is her name… it’s a horrible song. And last night I had the pleasure of singing “This is the song that never ends…” oh goodness I must want to die or something, horrible songs!
At the moment it is one of our line dance tunes, Americano, but it can be anything I’ve danced to recently
Right now the song that keeps running through my head is “Fireworks” by Katy Perry…don’t know why, guess cuz I’ve heard it on the radio several times today already! BTW, I like how the secondary design shows up on your block…cool!
This is such an interesting block. I really love the different ways you showed the block. All look great.
If a song sticks in my mind I can usually overcome that by “singing” another instead EXCEPT for one song. Nothing can ever overcome the song “The wheels on the bus”!!! That one gets into someone’s head and it just plays over and over and over and……..ugh…….sorry…..you’re singing that one now too aren’t ya? LOL oops.
The song that sticks in my head is One Day. Thanks for the giveaway!
When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother what will I be………Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be, the future’s not ours to see Que Sera Sera. I would love to win the giveaway but…Que Sera Sera!!!!!!
Sweet Caroline keeps playing in my head every since we went to a wedding and everyone was dancing and singing it.
That song from Cats–Midnight, not a sound from the pavement, has the moon lost her memory…
My son finds it highly embarrassing when I sing it in front of his friends. but it just comes out randomly!
Somewhere Over the Rainbow is now stuck in my head. Don’t know why. Maybe all the colorful fabrics from everyone’s blocks.
Life is a roller coaster by Ronan Keating
I drive my husband crazy singing an old theme song from JC Penney. It is always stuck in my head. Go figure!
the songs in my head are constantly changing.Alleluia sung by K.D. Lang at the Olympics is my favorite. Would love to try the scissors.
Its a Small world, when ever I’m at a Disney park, and go pass the attaction that songs stuck in my head The Zinnia block would make a great wall hanging.
Okay, this is nuts, but I sing “Button Up Your Overcoat” to my cat because of the line “You belong to me”. She, at least, seems to like to hear me sing to her. Love your block and have noticed the secondary design issue come up in other block patterns. Neat idea.
Would love to travel to Golden to see the quilts! You just never know:) The song – “Dancing Queen” from Mama Mia!
You brought back such wonderful memories for me! My youngest DS’s pre-school teacher always had the kids sing Zippity DoDah before leaving the classroom~ with hand actions. So cute! I love the zinnia block. Thanks for the fun!
A very beautiful block!!
This is such a beautiful block. I love it. Thanks for a chance to win a copy of the magazine. Hugs.
Love this block – so interesting. Currently the song that stays in my head is Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band – now it’s there again!!!
Well, every since I heard Carrie Underwood singing her heart out on a youtube video, How Great Thou Art has been stuck in my head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTSg1QuzyP4&feature=fvst
Great block! Let’s see, right now I have the Zippety Zoo Dah song going thanks to you, but usually it is whatever I heard last on the radio. It was “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Just now “Rocky Mountain High” by Jon Denver is stuck in my head from some reason. The song that ALWAYS gets stuck in my head, don’t EVER start singing this one, is of course “The Song That Never Ends” (curse you, Lamb Chop’s PlayAlong!)
Oh Happy Day is currently floating around in my head. Congrats on making the magazine.
The theme song from Hi-5. I thought we were finished with it, but my daughter rediscovered it on a long-lost CD, so it’s back! What a neat block! Congratulations!
“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” My mom used to “sing” this to me and my siblings when we were growing up. It was an almost daily affair and somehow, she has conveniently forgotten her antics. lol
“Stuck like Glue” by Sugarland is the song thats been going through my head lately! Your block is gorgeous and thanks for the tip on creating a secondary design in the corners.
You are my sunshine! I used to sing it to my nephew to put him to sleep when he was a baby. I LOVE your block!
Right now it’s humming “yellow submarine”… in my head
What a delicate block!
I got a music box a long time ago, it’s lovely…, the song it has it’s called “My favorite thing”, it’s in the soundtrack of the “Sound of Music”, the tittle of the song resembles my life, because generally it stucks in my head while I’m quilting and sometimes when I put the music box to play!, the scissors are a cutie pie!, thank you so much for the chance. You all rock
I’m still singing! Wow! This could be a lot of fun to play with.
Lovely block! Usually the last song I heard on the radio playing in the car is the song that gets stuck in my head, so it varies.
My son watches the Discovery Channel quite a bit, so often times I find myself singing the “Boom-de-a-dah” song (which is the commercial for the Discovery Channel). Since I usually quilt, or TRY to create blocks while he’s watching it seems to come out of our TV quite regularly. It’s a fun song, quilting is fun, and since I am also a science teacher, find it somewhat appropriate.
the song that always sticks in my mind is actually a jingle from a almond joy commercial and it is
some times you feel like a nut sometimes you don’t
I’m always singing it to my grandkids when they are being silly
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! closely followed by: I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry, If I only had a brain.
There is no explanation why…sigh.
My default song, if you will, is Sitting By The Dock of The Bay….closely followed by You’ve Got A Friend. These are happy tunes that I sing myself as I’m working and looking forward to sitting at my sewing machine
I find myself singing “all the single ladies” and can’t stop! Don’t know why…don’t like the song!
The Vantage phone commercial song has been stuck in my head since 2006. It goes away, then when hear again, I find myself doing the “whoo hoo” deal. I think that zippity zinnia would song much better! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
How funny. Co-worker and I were sending email back and forth a few times this afternoon with song lyrics we knew would get stuck and be repeated all night: “beat it, beat it” “Y-M-C-A” “she’ll be coming around the mountain” “itsy-bitsy” We had fun with this today. As for one that is always floating around it would be “itsy bitsy spider”. Your block is interesting. Congratulations on getting it published.
I have had the children’s song “the wheels on the bus go round and round” stuck in my head this week since keeping my little granddaughter this past weekend. Now it is joined by zippity do dah, zippity aye.
Thanks for the giveaway.
“You’re still the One”, my favorite verse is “you’re the one that can scratch my itch, still the one and I would’nt switch, we’re still havin’ fun and you’re still the one” For my husband of 39 years!!!
Fun block. I don’t know if I should thank you for asking your question about the song. The minute I read it – the words to “Its a Small World” started running through my head – must have to do with the fact that I used to live less than 5 miles from Disneyland.
Very creative block. On my commute home today, I heard “I’m all ready there” by Lonestar which I hadn’t heard for years and it’s been stuck in my head all evening. Congrats for being chosen for the magazine.
I have to say there is no song going one in my head. Though if you mention the name of a song, I know it will start until another song is mentioned or played. Too many quilt blocks in my head. Quilting is a song all by itself. Makes me happy!!
How cute is that. My friends granddaughter is names Zinnia
Love the beetles tune. Stick in my head so easily
A song called Dominique, by a group of nuns from Quebec called The Singing Nuns. I wish I had it on a CD or tape!
scrumdilly-icious scrumdilly -I, scrumdilly-icious, scrumdilly-I –I don’t even know if that is how it is spelled…but especially when I read your post, that is what came to my brainwave
Kokomo plays in my head while quilting…
I love this sunny flower design.
A few songs – “I Could Have Danced All Night” is one of them…
Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day by Bowling For Soup pops in my head quite often. It’s the them song from Phinneas and Ferb, one of my son’s favorite shows.
why is it always the most annoying songs that stick in your head? for weeks now i’ve had this song from a rice krispie’s commercial – the lyric is something about smiles coming true and it drives me nuts because it doesn’t make sense. luckily, i watched a documentary about Joan Baez earlier today, and now i have an old Bob Dylan song in my head instead!
thanks so much for the giveaway, those scissors look fabulous!
I love how your block pieces together. The song that always sticks in my head is a 70′s Janis Joplin song ” Mercedes Benz” because you don’t need a great voice to sing it. I use to drive my daughter crazy singing it to her during her teen years.
Love seeing how the blocks look set together. My kids are in a musical at church, so parts of their songs are always stuck in my head right now.
Zippity Zinnia is so cute!
Well, on one of my other comments, I said that if I won the beautiful mug, I would want to make every quilt block on the mug for a quilt. I love applique. This block will be a fun challenge for me! From what I have read about Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Scissors, these scissors will be a great help to cut out the applique for this block. This is a beautiful block and well designed.
Thank you,
Debra Cannon
Wonderful block. I hear Michael Buble in my head, “Home.”
What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. Gets me every time.
When I am having a difficult time, whether it be piecing or cutting or sewing, the song for the wicked witch of the west while she is riding on her broom in the wizard of oz always pops into my head. I collect wizard of oz, so that may be why, but it usually makes me smile and helps get over what ever hump I have encountered.
It seems that the last fun song I heard is the one that stays in my head – so for today it is “Zippidy Zinnia”! Tomorrow it may be something else, although Zippidy is such an uplifting song that it may stay with me for several days.
The songs that always stick are the ones I don’t wantt! Having two young children its usually something like – One, Two, Buckle my shoe…..
I’ve heard about these scissors. Thanks for a chance to win them.
I’m always humming something & sometimes I need to say “STOP IT!” to myself or I’d go crazy. Lately it’s been “You’ve Got a Friend” by James Taylor. Last week it was “Rocky Mountain High” by John Denver. Would be interesting to read about the psychology of why & what sticks in our head!
The song that is often in my head, especially in mornings, is Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” because it is used in an ad on the TV, and seems to air a lot. Otherwise, my head tune can be triggered by whatever triggers a song … weather, what someone says, etc.
No one song in my head usually. Whatever I have heard that day. Today it will be Zippity Do Dah!
sigh …… fats domino’s “blueberry hill’ — keeps my young. it would help to win the little scissors; my little ones are usually in the wash still attached to my keeper pinned to a shirt
No song but what is sticking in my head is which block and I making first. Thanks for a chance to win.
Cindy W.
Now why did you go and do that to us. As soon as one like your “Zippity Zinnia, Zippity-ay . . . ” comes into my head…I’ll be singing it. I’d like to give the scissors a try. I picked up something I think is similar by Kai at Road to California Quilt Show in January and love them. Best of all Kai has purple handles! They really do grip the fabric. Sandi
great block with lots of design possibilities. i can’t wait to get this magazine. singing away……………….
Well, thanks to you, the Zippity Do Dah song is stuck in my head. I actually to sing that sometimes. Thanks.
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Love the design. The colors are just right.
Wonderful designs! Hard to pick out just one, but this one is a sure thing.
A lot of songs stick in my head but recently it’s been Mercedes Benz for some reason.
Your zinnia makes quite a ‘song’ (beautiful block too~) Love it!
“It’s a Small World” is a song that sticks
Since I’m a new mom, I always have “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” in my head… hoping that babe will fall asleep soon. Thanks for offering this giveaway!