Lyn Brown's Quilting Blog

I told you North Dakota was coming!  My thought pattern is this… 50 States, 50 Blocks… But a quilt that is set 5 blocks by 10 blocks would be an odd shape so I thought… combine some states!  And North and South Dakota, though they have rich, varied and different histories, were an obvious choice […]

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Interesting… Wikipedia points out that Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula (often referred to as “the U.P.”) is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, […]

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Delaware, one of the original 13 colonies and our first state!   It is 1,954 square miles and is our second smallest state after Rhode Island.  Delaware is a low lying state with its highest point, Ebright Azimuth, just 450 feet above sea level!

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Is it possible that we’re already on the seventh week of the year? My, time does fly. This week we’re going to talk about Connecticut. One of the original colonies, it was the fifth state admitted to the union.

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Here in my home state of California, we have an abundance of natural wonders. Mountains, lakes, streams, beautiful sky, desert, shoreline, ocean. But the thing that people think about when they think about California all over the world is the man-made golden gate bridge.

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