Industrious wouldn’t exactly describe my quilting progress this past month. There have been some big house chores, like power washing, and truthfully, I have been in a relaxed mode with my sewing this past month. There’s surprisingly has been quite a bit of progress, though. I got a quilt back from the long armer and did get it bound. I’ve been working on a quilt for our bed – bigger than I usually do and although I love it and it’s exactly what I’ve wanted, it’s a bit boring (all 3 1/2″ squares). I also finally prepped and began to applique the fourth block of “Lolly Pop Trees.”
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Little Improv Thank You’s
Recently I wanted to send thank you notes and somehow a store purchased card fell short of how I wanted to express my gratefulness. I was also feeling a bit restless about my sewing – time to break out the scraps and do some improve! I chose various brights and just had to add some black and white and just began to piece.
The heart shape on this one below was a happy accident! There was a fair amount of sewing with those narrow strips, but it was fun.
Basically a wonky log cabin, the one below is my favorite.
Each wasounted on stabilizer then glued to the front of a 5″ x 7″ card. If you do a card like this, remember to go to the post office to have it weighed as there was extra postage. But OH SO worth it! I just hope the recipients understand how much I appreciated them.
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A Brilliant Array
These two quilts were donated quilt tops for Hospice that I quilted and bound.
These two were tops I put together from blocks sewn at the Quilt & Sew-In retreat. I also quilted and bound these.
Both were backed with yummy, soft fleece. I especially like the butterflies.
I couldn’t resist lining all the Hospice quilts to date on the clothesline. All that color! All that generous effort by so many! Looks like a carnival!
And here they are, all stacked up and ready to go. At the end of summer I will hit it again and add a few to the pile.
Good-bye May – Come on June!
Whew! The extreme heat of May (weeks of 90 degrees+) kept me inside getting lots of sewing done. All but two of the completed Hospice quilt tops have been quilted and bound, bringing the total today to 22! Four of those quilts were donated completely pieced, quilted and bound. A very talented and generous quilter donated them, but she wishes to remain anonymous. Look how great these are!
And here’s my May wrap-up. Now that it’s June, I’ll be taking a break from Hospice sewing and concentrating on a few of my many Works in Progress.
Hmmm. The “working on” portion of this list is supposed to be getting shorter, but seems to be getting longer instead.
Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel!
Leaping Lizards!
A couple of years ago Kaufman Fabrics generously donated “scrap” fabric to the Fairview Quilters, the group I work with to make Hospice quilts. I quickly grabbed the bright batik scraps and fun lizard fabric. Last year a quilt was made with some of the lizard fabric and I saved a few of the leftover blocks. At one of the Quilt & Sew-In retreats, attendees pieced strips of the bright batiks together. I brought it all home and played on the design wall. I love the results!
There wasn’t enough left over to make another quilt wholly from the batiks, so I added large strips of a very bright orange. This should surely brighten someone’s day!
Both quilts were backed with fleece – so soft and cuddly. It feels so good to have these quilted, bound and ready to go!
A Little Blue & White
At my quilt guild monthly meetings, there is a table marked “free.” Often someone is cleaning up their scraps and patterns and occasionally someone cleans out their whole quilt studio and shares their unwanted excess with guild members. Such was the case with this quilt. Laurie brought a table full of goodies to be scooped up and I grabbed this pretty little blue and white.
Funny, I’m sure she started this many years ago. Her style and fabric tastes have changed so much. Although this quilt was almost completely finished, there it was, abandoned. There was just a little more quilting to do – easy echo quilting and some stitch in the ditch and then the binding. The binding was even already prepared!
This will make a nice little comfort quilt; a perfect size for for someone in a wheelchair. Thanks Laurie. So glad your efforts reached completion and some joy will be passed on.