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.

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.