Two Little Quilts

Two little quilts added to the stack to take for Project Linus:

This used up the remainder of my cowboy boots fabric and the "No Girls Allowed" fabric.  I have two other quilts that I quilted while in the quilting mood, but it may take me awhile before I get into the "binding" mood.  I did forget my cute little labels for these two quilts.  I'm glad I finished them, I was just going to send the  pieces off and let someone else finish them, but a finished quilt to touch and look at is always nice!

Checking In

It's been awhile since I checked on the blogs on my sidebar!  I've been busy, but it doesn't seem like I have much to show for all the busy-ness!

Today is my mother's birthday.  She turns 89.  She's quite the gal for that age.  She gets around even more than I do, I think.  I had a quilt I was going to give to a friend, but I just couldn't quite get that feeling that the quilt was for her, so I set it aside. Then I thought, maybe I'll send it Project Linus, but that didn't feel quite right either.  When I thought about my mother, I realized the colors are just perfect for her.  Her birthday is in the fall, she loves fall and loves fall colors.  So this quilt went to her and she has already opened the package and loves it.  I don't know how many more birthdays she'll have.  I live too far away to enjoy them with her, but at least now she has a wrap up from me.  I didn't think she'd like one because she has many cover-ups.  But, again, I'm shown that I don't know my mother that well.  She has table toppers, and wall hangings, but maybe she'll use this one and think of the love that went into it. Scrappy quilts to her remind her of the poverty she knew as a child.  I love scrappy quilts and making things from scraps, but she hasn't been too enamored by that process I love so much.  I don't know, but I did feel that I needed to give one to her.  My sis gets many because she loves them so much and I didn't want to have mother felt left out--it's just that she and my sis look at quilts in two opposing viewpoints.  

and the quilting on my home machine

I have a bag ready to take to the pick up place for Project Linus here.  These are the quilts I've finished

 

and this recent one:

In that bag, I had put some quilt tops for someone else to finish, but today, I feel like quilting so maybe I'll take one of the smaller ones out and quilt a bit.  It's always fun to get a finish and then that way my bag to Project Linus won't look quite so small.  :)

Each month I make blocks and send to our Sunshine Lotto which means that some of the blocks are made into quilts for Quilts Beyond Borders and Wrap a Smile.



This month the theme is black and white:

 

I won the lotto in July and have a couple of tops put together for quilts, but I don't have them finished yet.  Maybe soon...

Quilts for Project Linus

I'm a little slow in the donation quilt finishes so far this year, but that said, I do have some starts.

This little quilt started as a pink challenge, but I found lots of pink and green and started with some wonky log cabins.

Last fall when my machine was being serviced, I cut some kits and this quilt came from one of those kits.  I purchased the fabric online and it just wasn't quite to my liking, but I tried making some blocks from the book Nine Patch Pizazz.  a post about it is found here

The finished quilt.

One more, some fabric I'd had since our grandson was born has been used with some others that I found in this little quilt.

Although the following quilt isn't a donation quilt, it did go to my favorite aunt.  Her husband of more than fifty years passed while I was working on this quilt and I sent it to her as a "Canopy of Heaven".

 

Half Log Cabin or Wonky Bento Box

It seems fitting that my first post to this blog would be of a quilt 

that I just finished using one of Beth's tutorials at the Love Laugh 

Quilt blog. Thanks Beth!  Used her Half Log Cabin – Free Style 

tutorial. This was so fun and quick. I didn't use the paper foundation 

for my blocks but followed her method.  

Went to the Project Linus meeting yesterday and delivered the 

quilt. Forgot to take a final picture so these are pictures of the 

flimsy. I had picked up the black & white polka dot at a past meeting, 

4 yards, 18” wide, so perfect for this scrap busting project. 

I also took two flimsies I sewed together from orphan blocks I 

came home with at another meeting. The coordinator is planning a 

"sandwich” day, not an eating party, but a workshop to sandwich 

quilts from flimsies given to PL. Find a back, layer, sandwich, and 

baste the quilts as needed. Some are sewn at the workshop, some 

taken home. Some are taken to a retirement home where residents 

tie quilts. Lots of work gets done by many hands. 

 

Thanks again Beth for the tutorial. AND Thank you for creating the 

new blog. I'm glad you have invited us to join in the fun and share 

our projects. 

Elaine