Caregiver's Quilt

This is a quilt I made for my mother's caregiver. She celebrated a birthday this week.  I used the pattern Fly Away by Bonnie Olaveson/Cotton Way. That is a lot of fly geese, 360 of them. It took a few days to make and trim the flying geese, other than that it went together very nicely. Since I made geese using a different method, I used less fabric than the pattern called for. Measured about 63x75 before washing.

Something New - Project 40!

Hi, all!

I'm willing to bet that, like me, most of you are multi-talented in the crafting areas - and may know how to knit or crochet in addition to your mad quilting talents.  So I've got an opportunity for you to use those skills in a simple and low-commitment way to give someone a warm "hug".

My friend Pam, one of the ladies in our church's quilt ministry, has started something called Project 40.  No, it's  not quilting, but it is still a creative and much needed way to give someone in need a hug - so please go check out her new blog and see what it's all about!  And at the same time, you can see the absolutely gorgeous king-size quilt she made - and hand quilted!!  It has a great story, one you really should read....

Hugs!

Sarah

Make a block or two!

An opportunity.

A chance to GIVE.

Something I KNOW you like to do!

;)

 

Sew up a Disappearing 9 patch today.

More info here.

Erin is collecting them,

Assembling them,

and

making QUILTS happen!!!

 

Woo Hoo!!!

 

 

 

RMH

This little 47 inch quilt is going to Ronald's House.

It started with 2 inch by 3.5 inch blue strips that I over cut for a previous quilt. I added the orange because it was across from the blue on my color wheel and luckily for me I had the perfect flowered border.

I used a lot of different oranges. It is really a bight and cheery quilt and I am pleased that I was able to come up with a quit using leftover bits.

For A Friend

I found this quilt online at http://quiltinggallery.com/2012/06/23/my-next-scrappy-project/ and just had to make it.

Since I already had a bunch of 2.5 inch squares and strips cut out, my quilt turned out a little bigger than the pattern. It finishes at 113 inches square, before washing.

I am sending this quilt to a friend who has had more than her share of sorrows over the past 19 years. Hoping she will know just how much I care about her and that it will lighten her heart just a bit.

It made a great scrappy quilt. Used about 23.96 yards of fabric, including the backing and binding. No the quilt isn't sewed as crocked as it seems in the pictures, my hanging job was bad.  The corner stones are white with black dots and the binding is black with white dots.

block wall quilt

Every year I head up a tradition that began

more than 15 years ago.

The ladies at my church give the graduating high school seniors a quilt.

 

It used to be a group effort.

Squares were cut at meetings....

Ties were added later....

but times have changed.

We don't meet monthly anymore.

That doesn't mean we can't give quilts, right???

Now...

We meet only ONE time to sew together.

I usually do the rest.

But you know what???

I love it!

 

This quilt is SO nice...
I think I'll cut strips and bring them to our gathering.

Then....

EVERYONE can help make another BEAUTY.

Isn't it the perfect BOY quilt???

Yeah.

I think so too.

;)

 

Scraps of Love...

Hi, all!

I've got a special quilt to share with you all today - made for one of our quilt ministry members, who had a brain aneurysm rupture last week.  

The word blocks were donated by Sharon...

Christy is a new member - she had just joined a couple of months ago, and after making her first quilt for herself (she was afraid it wouldn't be good enough to give away!), she made six baby quilt tops and started on a quilt for a friend.  

The monkey fabric came from the first baby quilt Christy made...

And the red striped fabric above is left over from a dress I made
for my daughter about 20 years ago!

Then suddenly, last Monday, she suffered the ruptured aneurysm and has been in the hospital ever since.  She is still sedated and they are unsure of the extent of the damage.  

Lots of the ministry members joined in making blocks for this quilt - it was the first experience for many of them with dump-and-sew blocks, but it went well!  

In fact, the block on the right above was the first block a new member had ever made, and actually the first thing she ever sewed!  She was so excited....

And this block has the best story - one of the ladies in the group was making it at home before leaving on a trip, and her daughter was helping her pull fabrics.  When KatieBeth brought the princess fabric over, Deb said, "Honey, this quilt is for a grown-up lady - and that's a little girl fabric."  KatieBeth responded, "Well, she's a princess too, isn't she?"  As Deb said, how could she tell her not to put it in after that?

There are pieces of fabric in this quilt from many of the quilts we've made for the ministry, and many hands had a part in the making of it.  Our hope is that it will remind Christy of how many people are praying for her and cheering her on as she recovers from this horrible event in her life.  

Thanks for letting me share this special quilt with you.  I hope you'll join us in praying for Christy - she'll need a lot of prayer over the coming months......

Hugs!

Sarah