Sunday Randomness #275: Bringing puzzles back into our lives September 2024 has eccentricity with puzzles 29, 30, and 31

 

Glow in the dark!

Masterpieces puzzle Moon Fairy 300 piece (missing that one piece in the center-it's much harder to find the missing piece with the glow-in-the-dark picture)

Wave Hopper puzzle that came in a cool metal van container.  No idea who made it or how many pieces.  We thought maybe around 600-700 hundred?  And yes, we checked all over the poster and the metal van for clues but it only had that thrift store price sticker.

Pendelton Mills has this 1000 piece puzzle of Patchwork rugs/quilts/wall hangings.  Mego made this one a lot easier for me to understand by presenting it as 20 small puzzles.  We each picked different designs, completing about 2/3rds of the puzzle, and then worked on the remaining images together.

Author 7: Jeff Brumbeau writing about quilts

These two are among our favorites! We check these books out of the library over and over again. First is The Quiltmaker's Gift followed by The Quiltmaker's Journey which is a prequel. Fabulous illustrations, beautiful stories-what's not to appreciate, learn from, and love?
In the first book we meet a selfish king who wants a quilt-but he's asked to earn the quilt despite his attempts to just take a quilt.

The quiltmaker wasn't always the woman making quilts on the mountain. Once she was a girl with everything living in a sheltered town that did not know poverty or want in anyway other than the unhappiness that she felt of having everything and not helping those less fortunate. She leaves the town through a hidden passageway out to the world beyond. When she returns to the town she tells them of her discoveries at which they scoff and she chooses to leave. But, she must leave with nothing except her clothes she is wearing and her mother's ring. She wants to help but finds she can't help some people because she does not know how. At last she finds a mother and child sleeping out in the cold and she knows what she can do. Thus starts her work of making quilts.

Author Jeff Brumbeau and the illustrator Gail de Marcken have a website at http://www.quiltmakersgift.com At their site you can find more books about quilting along with stories inspired by the books.