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.