Little Blue Chair

This little Blue Chair is finally on it's way "home".

I waited a REALLY long time to

send it off to the

Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative!

I drag my feet about silly things sometimes!

I love this little chair.

I hope it raises LOTS of $$$ for Alzheimer's Research!

It's Wonderful to do something I LOVE to do....

that at the same time.... helps others!!!

Win. Win. situation.

;)

This little chair is assigned #11,180.

See???

Lots of people must be doing something they love to do!!!

That's a BIG number!!!

A couple more Cradle quilts

I definetly got My Mrs Claus on this week and whipped up a couple more small quilts.  

I tripped over the pink novelty scrap while cleaning up and thought it would only  get lost again if I put it in a scrap box or drawer. There was just enough for these 2 quilts. 

I did the one without binding first. Really not thrilled with how it looked so I did traditional binding on the second one.

This is the other color way of the zig zag fabric. Works perfectly

Quilting For Good Linky Party, Week 4

Hi, all!


It's that time again - time to link up and show off your charity quilting efforts!!  It can be a quilt you are working on or have finished, or it can be a post about a cause you support, or it can be about donations you've made to help out a quilting charity!  Join in the fun, and check out the other links to see what opportunities for Quilting For Good are out there.....


Today I'm going to focus on the lovely women that I quilt with at church...

These wonderful women stepped up this week and took six quilts that were quilted but not bound before I left on vacation, and are finishing them up this week.  I honestly don't know how we could do as much as we do without each and every one of them!  Most of them work outside the home, but still find time to piece tops for the ministry, and step up and go the extra mile when asked.  Thanks so much, girls!!  Next week I should have some beautiful finished quilts to show off here.

And now it's your turn!

Show us what you've been working on this week -

Progress shots,

Finished quilts,

Donations you've sent to others!

It's all Quilting For Good!

Hugs!

Sarah

Thank you, Mrs. Claus

    Hi, I am Debbie from Stitchin Therapy  and I want to share a little news about Get Your Mrs. Claus On.
There is an amazing group of gals at the HGTV Message Board that deserve hugs and cheers.  I can't say enough good things about them.  They committed to the Get Your Mrs. Claus On project earlier this year.  Their goal was to make and donate a doll quilt representing every state.  The head organizer there is Nicki, who has been a diligent cheerleader  for Mrs. Claus and kept things rolling along.   The last box of doll quilts arrived and this group has donated 126 doll quilts!

   Enough words, how about some photos of the variety they created.
 

   So thank you, Mrs. Claus---each of you have earned the title.   Your gift of fabric and love will brighten the hearts of little girls this season.    May we all try harder, be braver, live stronger and love deeper.    
Thanks for inviting me to share and post about the Mrs. Claus project.  

Quilts are for giving...a variation

 Most often the quilts I give go to a group's cause, like Project Linus. But, like 9 patches, there are variations. The quilt above was made from some FQ bundles I got from Carol E. I cut them all into 2.5" strips and did a fence rail variation. Three fabrics for the rails, and then offset them with a strip added to the top or bottom, alternating. The other part of the variation is that this went to a semi-local 3 yr old girl who was having open heart surgery. A tiny little girl named Teagan. I heard she loved the Barbie fabrics. Thanks again for sharing Carol *VBS*

This quilt, which is snuggle size, is another variation on 'giving'. It's amazing how the Universe arranges connections so effortlessly. My 5 kids are adopted. My oldest daughter and her birth mom in MI, were re-united and added another layer of connected-ness to our family circle. The best friend of the birth mom lost her husband  a few years ago. DD and I wanted to express our love to her birth mom and her friend.

An offer was made to do a 'memory' quilt for the friend, using parts of Larry's shirts. Since neither DD, birth mom, or friend are quilters, what was sent was"interesting" to say the least. But I was determined to make it work. Everything in this double 4 patch was Larry's except the light blue and the border/binding. It is a tied quilt with a flannel backing.
And along that same line, sometime in this year, I will be making a memory quilt of T-shirts for my DD#1's best friend who lost her 14 yr old unexpectedly last year. She's not quite ready to let go of his clothes as yet, but she's very receptive to a snuggle quilt. I'm hoping it will feel like a hug from her little guy.

Two for Get Your Mrs.Claus On

Just had to whip these up.  Been working on a big project and needed to do something that would give me some instant gratification. 

Read about this qroup here yesterday and thought it would be a great use of time and stash.

This is Tink, my nosey girl.

 

I was only planning on making one of these last night but you know how it is, small projects lend themselves to multiplying.

I did some straight line quilting, one cross hatched and one either side of the seam lines.

I found a lot of this backing fabric in 2 different colorways in my drawer of novelty fabrics.

the other version will show up in the not to distant future I'm sure.

A Different Kind of Giving

I fell in love with this idea from Debbie at Stitchin' Therapy  - please visit for all the details and inspiration.  A group of volunteers making children's toys for various groups - listed on her site.  And when Deb broke her shoulder and then surgery - she sent a shout out for help in getting enough doll quilts for the cradles and doll beds.

We all have scraps, orphan blocks or starts of projects sitting.  I dug first into my pre-cut scrap barrels.  A 12"x 18" cradle quilt goes together so quickly.

I know we all have those left over triangles - perfect home for them in a little  14" x 18" doll bed quilt. 

And she had the cutest button designed for you all to add to your blog and get the word out.  I plan on digging into those orphan blocks for more little quilts to send on.  Do you have some orphan blocks, HST's, odd charms, or bits of a quilt never finished??  Consider makeing one (or several) of  these little blankets of love to make some child's Christmas a little brighter.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon