Log Cabin Quilts

I completed two Log Cabin Quilts.  A nice lady at the senior center gave me some lovely material to use for my quilts. The blue Log Cabin was made from that lovely gift.
The Red and blue plaid material, I picked up at a yard sale. All the material was cut up into three inch strips.This saves a lot of time in the cutting process.

I always enjoy making the Sun Bonnet Sue Quilts. It is like playing paper dolls. I get to pick out their skirts, bonnets, etc. and how to trim them. The problem with this is I always have a few parts left, and then I I feel I must use them up, so I cut more. And it goes on and on.

I also came across  several blocks of baskets, all hand sewn. I put the lattices, and borders on  for an easy to finish quilt.

I  made several scrap quilts. I never seem to be able to use up all the scraps They are not the prettiest, but are colorful and warm.

 I hurt my left shoulder, so I am taking a rest from my quilting for a while. I am already bored, and tired of doing crossword puzzles. I hope to get back to it soon, as my niece just had a little boy. I already have a twin size top finished. It will be a while before he gets into a regular bed, so I guess I have plenty of time.

Small Quilts

I finally finished putting together the last of the quilt tops, that I had made, while I was trying to find out where to gI et the fiber fill from my favorite store. Some of their stores had discontinued selling it.

I made two more Sunbonnet Sue quilts, and a slightly larger basket quilt. The hand quilted baskets, I found at a yard sale.I always run theem  through the washing machine as then they are preshrunk. It seemed a shame  to waste someones nice work. I finished it off with borders,etc.

I made several scrap quilts.I  have so  much scraps left especially from the backing material.I know they are not that pretty, but I hope some children like all the bright colors and also often flowers and animals they can find in them.

I also had put together two Log Cabin quilts. This quilt is the first one I learned, and I think

it is the easiest. Sometimes deciding on a pattern and the materials is the hardest part.



 This is the last of the Srap Quilts.

Quilts for hositalized children

I recently lost my favorite place to buy quilting fiberfill., when  Building 19,in Norwood discontinued carrying it. They were less expensive, and even came in a wider width.
After checking around,with the help of a lovely lady Sheila, of that company, I found a couple of other Building 19 stores that carried it. It only seemed to come in once in a while. It is a bit of a ride, but well worth i.  t Seeing that I had to wait quite a while before I got the fiberfill, I kept making the tops.I finally got the fill and pu taabout 15 small quilts together. I still have as many more to get together..
I am on a crusade to use up all leftover blocks and parts of blocks. This is the stack that I recently finished.

I had many left over pieces of the Sunbonnet Sue quilt, so I polished off most of them, One scrap quilt with squares of teddy bears in the center, and one with ships for the center I used up a lot of scraps on a couple of  scrap quilts.. I also had two blocks remaing from a log Cabin  which I used for centers, and,.

 I tried on small quilt using flying geese.

Dresden Plate leftovers

I always seem to have a lot of pieces left over from a former project. I decided to use  up, a few dresden plate parts. Of course I needed a few more , and got carried away and cut too, too many.( I had to take a break from my writing as my son just came in with a hot fudge sundae,  that I quickly polished off.) I think I ended up with 3 quilts, 1 double bed size, and 2 nap size quilts..This first small one, I decided to give to my sister , who is in a nursing and rehab home, for Alztheimer's I thought it would be nice to sign all her family names, seven sisters and brothers and their family, her own family of course , our parents, and all her friends. I thought it might be nice for her to see all the names of people that love her.

 Here is a closeup of the names we wrote on the quilt, I bought a pen, at Johannes Fabric store, that writes on fabric, that worked well.

 This was my favorite dresden. I had a pretty print that you could cut up like a border. It made it look almost like a pretty ribbon between the plates.

 This larger quilt,I gave to a cousin,and his wife, that are into genealogy, and put as many names of all our ancestors that I could. The background of the Dresden Plate worked well for this idea.

Three quilts out of scraps

• Shortly before I did the mother's quilt, I had been saving blocks of 3x5 scraps  . I had  a large box of them. I finally put them together. I got a double size, a nap size quilt (great size for napping in your recliner), and a few child's size. It is strange it was the same pattern as my friends mother's except her quilt was much larger pieces. Mine are really too many, bright colors, but nice and warm. I gave one to my cousin, kept the nap size one for me, and gave the child ones to go to children in hospitals. I enjoy mine for my nap time.

A mother's quilt finished 30 years later

A friend, I met at the Senior Center   showed me a quilt top her mother mad ethirty years before. She would really love to get it finished. After a fun trip to my favorite store (Building 19) to pick up the fiber fill, and a lovely lunch  a lot of laughs, we decide it was time to finish it.  At the center we put three tables together with the help of my son) and a few ladies, we finally put it together.  All we needed now was the binding, and tying it. It turned out very nice. I decided her mother needed credit for all the wonderful memories for her daughter, she deserved to have her label on the quilt I usually print out any labels I use.

Small Quilts for charity

The senior center that I deliver the quilts to , now send them to a local hospital as it is much closer to deliver them. I don't know if it is still under the Linus organization Here are a few more that I have made I have had problems getting into my blog, but finally got it straightened out by Google. thank you Google help.

More wedding gowns

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The last actual wedding was made by my sister Elly and I. We made it for her son's finacee. She had a light champagne satin. almost white with I believe a lace bodice., an off the shoulder neckline, a full skirt, and train.After we got the gown together, We took all the big roses from the remaining lace, and appliqued them all around the hem of the skirt, and train. Then we took other roses , that ran the nest size , and then smaller ones and appliqued them up the five or six seams of the gown. I remember while we were making it., every once in a while, one of us would prick our finger. The first thing we would yell isw "Don't get blood on the gown.We eventually did get a spot on the gown(We got most of it off by putting a moistened needle through it several times. We were able to conceale our mistake. We had to sew large hooks  to hitch up the train.which we concealed with roses over the hook. It covered them perfectly. Of course, she was a beautiful bride. We also made a cute dress for her young friend that she use to baby sit for. It came out real cute.

I didn't have a big weddinng. My mother had been in the hospital, with a infected toe.
 She had to have her leg amputated. When she heard we were getting married, she tolld the doctors , if they had to do it, operate right away, so she could get home for the wedding. She got home about two hours before the ceremony. My dress was a pale blue taffeta,with a lace empire top. The back ahd two panels of taffeta line with netting. I also made a dress out of the blue taffeta for Judy

 My husband, and I went to El Paso Texas, a week later for a course he was taking.