June's Blog Post

 I didn't mean for a quarter to pass by before I posted again, but that's what happened! Let see if I can summarize all that I been doing as far as quilting - NOT the falls (Mom's and mine) nor the demands of home, care-giving, and life in general. Sooo, here goes:

In March I made my third BOM block into a baby quilt (See Feb post for why I did this). Took a 12" block and made it into a 36" block, big enough for the baby quilts St. Anne wants for newborns.

Waiting to be sandwiched, quilted and bound. Also completed the sew along I created for the St. Anne's ladies. Wish I could show you all the cute versions they made.  Here is mine:

Finally finished all the applique on this Esther Aliu pattern. Phew! Now to  add the next border.

 I also finished my contribution to SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin:

Then, in April made a pillowcase for my granddaughter's 16th birthday which was on the 16th!

I belong to the Seasoned Makers, an online group, which acts like a online guild but with online meetings, sip and sew zoom sessions, and provides all kinds of patterns to demo the great videos it displays of different tricks to piecing blocks , and making quilts from them.  I made a baby quilt from the weathervane block from one of those videos:

Made it into a  baby quilt measuring 36" square.

In June finished a demo of a carpenter star for the St. Anne's Sewdality group. They learned to make 4 flying geese at once. As far as we've gotten:

That's it for this quarter. I'll try to do better and keep you posted on what I'm up to quilty wise. Blessings and stay safe.

Another Flimsy

I'm making the Raincross Quilt Guild's Block of the Month into baby quilts each month instead of blocks for an eventual quilt. Why?  Because I seem to get behind and never finish the BOMs. So since I want to make at least one baby quilt each month for St. Anne's, I'll have one done.  Just needs to be 36" square. We make these for newborns and for use in strollers and car seats. Each low income mother gets one when they come in for their first post partum visit at the local county clinic.  There are 12 of us that belong to St. Anne's (our local St. Francis de Sales Catholic parish). So we usually take around 12-15 quilts per month. Sadly, that provides a day's worth of visits by moms to the clinic.  We are comforted that we at least meet some of the need.

Here is my flimsy from Feb's BOM block:

Just have to sandwich, quilt, bind and label.

I'm linking to Design Wall Monday , Wednesday Wait Loss, and Oh, Scrap! See you there.

Blessings, off to start the March baby quilt.

My SAHRR is Done!

At last! My SAHRR flimsy is done.  I finished it last Wednesday, but didn't have time to post it. Here it is:

 Round 4 was to use curves, I let the curvy lines of the flowers fabric of my Kaffe Fasset pieces stand for that. And Round 5 was to use two colors. I chose to instead use two fabrics. To tie it together, I used a fabric from Round 3 to be my Round 6.  Now I just have to quilt it.

I'm linking to Oh Scrap!, and Design Wall Monday. Its fun to see what you are all up to.   Blessings,