In September, i knew I was going in the hospital for a knee replacement, and I relized I would be home , with not much to d., I couldn't drive for a while, so, I decided to make up some charity quilts to keep me busy.
 I took every leftover block, etc and built around it for a quilt, and used any childlike prints etc, that would work. I really got into it, and made up 26 small quilts all ready for me to hand sew the bindings on when I was being held hostage in the house.
 I am home again and doing well. I now am back to driving. I have just 3 more quilts to finish up. and then I will be done. After I am finished, I am going to take a rest from small quilts.

 i am going to post them all.   Some are repeats, but this is, my way of  keeping  track of what I made.

I have decided to make mostly linus quilts now as it is harder to manage the really larger ones .
The senior Center that I bring them to.now are sending them to a local hospital. The Linus  quilt place they were sending all afghans and quilts  them is quite a distance to go. As long as they give comfort to some child etc while in a hospital, it really doesn't matter.

This is a group of scrap quilts

The next quilt is a boat block in the middle with several borders around it. The other one has a children's book theme with a color full border

This is another group of scrap quilts

I was yard sailing one day and found these 4 blocks of stenciled flower baskets. I added some borders and put it together. Perhaps a little older girl will take to it.

The other one, I needed some little bit of handwork to take on vacation with me to keep me out of trouble, so I handsewed some 4 inch blocks together , with borders fo finish it off.

We also made the dresses for the bridemaids. I believe the maid of honor wore pale yellow, and the rest wore alight aqua. ii am posting a picture that has been water damaged, and I don't know how to fix it. I hope I can fix it later.

The picture is of my daughter Judy and my son who was about four years old. He was the ring bearer, (with fake rings) and coming down the aisle, he kept picking up the flowers that the flower was spreading out.

The fourth gown, we  made was for my sister Helen, and my favorite

The gown was made of all lace, had a scalloped neckline, long sleeves. buttoned down the back, flowing skirt with a small train. We also cut out all the roses from excess material and appliqued it around the neckline,the hem and train. We embellished the appliqued roses with small pearls and iridescent sequins.

The third gown we made was for my sister Eleanor,two years younger than me.  She had an all lace gown. It didn't need any embellishment, although we might have sewed a few small pearls, and irredescent sequins on.

The ssecond wedding gown< my sisters and I made for my sister in law Betty. She had a very pale pink taffeta covered with tulle, It had two panels of scollopped lace tha tran down the front and back of the gown, About 10 inches before the hem on the panels,their was gathered tulle. The top of the gown had lace with scalloping accros the top.  A different size of lace with scalloping was needed for the sleeves.

Bacl then, ( about 1956) you couldn't find the same lace in all three sizes, in Boston stores, and you had to order from New York. Now I am sure you can get them anywhere

Linus quilts

I am posting a few quilts I made for Linus Quilts for children in the hospitals. I am mostly using up excess material. Some of the colors are rather too bright, but I think children like bright colors. They may have to wear sunglasses with the green quillts I uploade two of the same quilts and don't know how to take the extra one out. Sorry about that.

More boat quilts

I had to make another quilt for a nephew. I made too many blocks so I made two of them. I am tired of making boat quilts, but add them to keep track of quilts made.