Letters,quilts, and coal buckets

Lately I have been making letters for a special project.  Above are some I made recently.  They are fun to make and you can spell all kinds of things with them. 

Here are some words  I made just playing around.  You can spell all kinds of words.  I used the book Word Play Quilts by Tonya Rucci to make these blocks.    I ended it  making a special quilt out of these letters. 

Here is the special project I made out of these letters.   This picture was taken before  it was quilted.  With all the rain I couldn't get a picture taken now that it is finished.  Karen Wegener of Lamar quilted it for me and she did a wonderful job.  I am planning on entering it in The Little Balkans Quilt  Show labor day weekend, so if you want to see it in person - Come to the quilt show!  I made farmer's daughters blocks for two of the corners and coal buckets for the other two.  I know they don't look much like coal buckets but I did the best that I could.  It was fun to make.  The only problem that you have to be careful when you put it together because it is really easy to get the letters switched .    I did that on a different quilt and had to do a lot of ripping out to fix it.  When I showed it to Jeff he told me I spelled Buckets wrong.  I quickly checked because I was paranoid that I would do that.  Thank God he was just joking!