Design wall Monday 4/25

Okay, I'm late, but the last two weeks have been way too busy. So here is the quilt that was on my design wall a couple of mondays ago. I don't have a wall any more to hang the blocks from - LOL , it's behind the boxes that have materialized from somewhere - you know how that happens, so I use the carpeted floor in the guest room. Here it is quilt top together, sandwiched and I'm quilting it. The blocks are 6 inches without the sashing. I like to use freezer paper to quilt a motif. On the left here is the finished quilt. I call it Fielding Nine - it's an opportunity

quilt for the baseball league my DGS is in. He plays T-ball. They need funds to pay the summer water bill and the proceeds are going toward it.

I used the left over fabric from the front and a little white to make the back. They are a Christian Athletic League and thought this would be apropriate.

UFO #5 for this year is

Bullseye Blossoms. These bullseye blocks were from a few years back from the online group Quilter On Review. I made 25 for the swap and cut into fourths and send them to our Swap Lady. She returned them and I made the ones you see as the border. When I had assembled them, I realized the quilt was smaller than I wanted, so I had to think of something to make it bigger. The blocks measure 8" finished. I searched the web images and didn't find anything I wanted to tackle, and then I thought of all those circles I had cut out of the backs when I was making the bullseye and the blossoms were born. These are all raw edge appliqué, so it was a breeze to put together and to quilt. I made it my quilt as I go way - lol - this time I could do the whole center and then just added the borders. I'm keeping this one.

Lily Mary Anita

Here she is, our little Precious, at nine days old and a family portrait:

Click on arrow and you'll go to the video clip.

Lily is such a good baby - her mom can't believe how lucky she is to have such a cooperative little one - they have to wake her to feed and not sleep too long - her brother was like that also. And here's delighted Abuela with Lily. Life is good!